Ecclesiastes 4:16

New American Bible - revised edition

There is no end to all this people, to all who were before them; yet the later generations will not have joy in him. This also is vanity and a chase after wind. Vanity of Many Words.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:9

So the king got up and sat at the gate. When all the people were told, “The king is sitting at the gate,” they came into his presence. The Reconciliation. Now the Israelites had fled to their separate tents,

1 Kings 1:40

Then all the people went up after him, playing flutes and rejoicing so much the earth split with their shouting. Adonijah Submits to Solomon.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

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

Ecclesiastes 2:11

But when I turned to all the works that my hands had wrought, and to the fruit of the toil for which I had toiled so much, see! all was vanity and a chase after wind. There is no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

Therefore I detested life, since for me the work that is done under the sun is bad; for all is vanity and a chase after wind. To Others the Profits.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the one who pleases God, he gives wisdom and knowledge and joy; but to the one who displeases, God gives the task of gathering possessions for the one who pleases God. This also is vanity and a chase after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:15

I saw all the living, those who move about under the sun, with the second youth who will succeed him.