Ecclesiastes 4:16

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

The number of the people, of all that were before him is infinite: and they that shall come afterwards, shall not rejoice in him: but this also is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.

1 Kings 1:40

And all the multitude went up after him, and the people played with pipes, and rejoiced with a great joy: and the earth rang with the noise of their cry.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.

2 Samuel 19:9

And all the people were at strife in 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 is fled out of the land for Absalom.

Ecclesiastes 4:15

I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.