Ecclesiastes 4:16

A Conservative Version

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.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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.

1 Kings 1:40

And all the people came up after him, and the people piped with pipes, and rejoiced with great joy, so that the earth rent with the sound of them.

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 2:11

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.

2 Samuel 19:9

And all the people were contending throughout all the tribes of Israel, saying, The king delivered us out of the hand of our enemies, and he saved us out of the hand of the Philistines. And now he fled out of the land from Absalom.

Ecclesiastes 4:15

I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the second, who stood up in his stead.