Ecclesiastes 2:15

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

And I said in mine heart, If one death shall be both of the fool and of me, what profiteth it to me, that I gave more busyness to wisdom? And I spake with my soul, and perceived, that this also was vanity.

Cross References

1 Kings 3:12

lo! I have done to thee after thy words, and I have given to thee a wise heart and an understanding, in so much that no man before thee was like thee, neither shall rise up after thee.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I saw all things that be made under the sun, and lo! all things be vanity and torment of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:16

I spake in mine heart, and I said, Lo! I am made great, and I passed in wisdom all men, that were before me in Jerusalem; and my soul saw many things wisely, and I learned.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

for in much wisdom is much indignation, and he that increaseth knowing, increaseth also travail.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes; vanity of vanities, and all things be vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For the mind of a wise man shall not be, in like manner as neither that of a fool, without end, and [the] times to coming [or to come] shall cover all things altogether with forgetting; a learned man dieth in like manner as an unlearned man.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

Words be full many, and have much vanity in disputing. What need is it to a man to seek greater things than himself;

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What hath a wise man more than a fool? and what hath a poor man, but that he go thither, where is life?