Ecclesiastes 1:17

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

Then I decided to find out all I could about wisdom and foolishness. Soon I realized that this too was as senseless as chasing the wind.

Cross References

Psalm 73:16

It was hard for me to understand all this!

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Nothing makes sense. I have seen it all— nothing makes sense.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

This made me hate life. Everything we do is painful; it's just as senseless as chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I wanted to find out what was best for us during the short time we have on this earth. So I decided to make myself happy with wine and find out what it means to be foolish, without really being foolish myself.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

Like animals we breathe and die, and we are no better off than they are. It just doesn't make sense.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Then I realized that we work and do wonderful things just because we are jealous of others. This makes no more sense than chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

Yet a very little food eaten in peace is better than twice as much earned from overwork and chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 6:9

It's better to enjoy what we have than always to want something else, because that makes no more sense than chasing the wind.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

Day and night I went without sleep, trying to understand what goes on in this world.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

It's terribly unfair for the same thing to happen to each of us. We are mean and foolish while we live, and then we die.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

Put everything to the test. Accept what is good