Ecclesiastes 1:2

A Conservative Version

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

Cross References

Psalm 144:4

Man is like vanity. His days are as a shadow that passes away.

Romans 8:20

For the creation was made subject to futility, not willingly, but because of him who subjected it in hope.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves silver shall not be satisfied with silver, nor he who loves abundance, with increase. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the man who pleases him [God] gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner he gives travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him who pleases God. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will have rule over all my labor in which I have labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief, yea, even in the night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous to me. For all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

Yea, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all. But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Since there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one man who is alone, and he has not a second, yea, he has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end of all his labor, nor are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, [he says], do I labor, and deprive my soul of

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied by his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For that which befalls the sons of men befalls beasts, even one thing befalls them; as the one dies, so dies the other. Yea, they all have one breath, and man has no preeminence above the beasts; for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skillfulness, yet he shall leave it to a man who has not labored in it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 11:10

Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh, for youth and the dawn of life are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There was no end of all the people, even of all those over whom he was. Yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it will happen even to me, and why then was I more wise? Then said I in my heart that this also is vanity.

Job 11:12

But vain man is void of understanding. Yea, man is born [as] a wild donkey's colt.

Psalm 89:47

O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered for me silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of the provinces. I got for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of men, [and] a wife and wives.