Ecclesiastes 1:2

King James 3 - The Literal Traslation

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity!

Cross References

Job 11:12

For empty-minded man takes heart, and man is born a wild ass’s colt.

Psalm 144:4

Man is like to vanity; his days are like a shadow that passes.

Psalm 89:47

Remember, I pray, the time of life; for what vanity have you created all the sons of men?

Ecclesiastes 11:10

And turn aside frustration from your heart, and cause evil purpose to pass from your flesh. For childhood and prime of life are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 11:8

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

Ecclesiastes 12:8

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

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I faced on all my works that my hands had done, and on the labor that I had labored to do. And, behold, all is vanity and striving after wind, and there is no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:15

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

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is an evil thing to me; for all is vanity and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:19

And who knows if he will be wise or a fool? Yet he shall rule among all my labor in which I labored, and acted wisely under the sun. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

When there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with success, yet he shall give it to a man who has not labored with it, for his share; this also is vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are pains, and his task is grief; his heart does not even lie down in the night. Even this also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For God gives wisdom, and knowledge and joy to a man who is good in His sight. But to the sinner He gives the task of gathering and to heap up, to give to him who is good before God. This also is vanity and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I also gathered to me silver and gold, and the treasure of kings and of provinces. I made ready men to sing and women to sing for myself; and the delights of the sons of men, a concubine, and concubines.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For the event of the sons of men, and the event of beasts, even one event is to them. As this one dies, so that one dies; yea, one breath is to all; so that there is to the man no advantage over the beast; for all is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:16

There is no end to all the people, to all who have been before them; also the later ones shall not rejoice with him. Surely this is also vanity and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

And I considered all labor, and every advantage of the work, that it is the envy of a man against his neighbor; this is also vanity and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is one alone, and there is not a second; and there is not a son or a brother to him; and there is not an end to all his labor; even his eyes are not satisfied with riches; and he says, For whom do I labor, and my soul be without good? This is also vanity; yea, it is an evil task.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

He who loves silver will not be satisfied with silver; and he who loves abundance does not gain. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Since there are many things that increase vanity, and what is the advantage to men?

Romans 8:20

For the creation was not willingly subjected to vanity, but through the One subjecting it, on hope;