Ecclesiastes 4:16

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

The number of people, of all that were before him, is great without measure, and they that shall come afterward, shall not be glad in him; but also this is vanity and torment of the spirit.

Cross References

2 Samuel 19:9

And all the people strived in all the lineages of Israel, and said, The king delivered us from the hand of all our enemies, and he saved us from the hand of Philistines; and now he hath fled from the land for Absalom.

1 Kings 1:40

And all the multitude went up after him, and the people of men singing with pipes, and being glad with great joy; and the earth sounded of the cry of them.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

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

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And when I had turned me to all the works which mine hands had made, and to the travails in which I had sweated in vain, I saw in all things vanity and torment of soul, and that nothing under [the] sun dwelleth.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And therefore it annoyed me of my life, seeing that all things under [the] sun be evil, and that all things be vanity and torment of the spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

God gave wisdom, and knowing, and gladness to a good man in his sight; but he gave torment, and superfluous busyness to a sinner, that he increase, and gather together, and give to him that pleaseth God; but also this is vanity, and vain busyness of soul.

Ecclesiastes 4:15

I saw all men living that go under the sun, with the second young waxing man, that shall rise for him.