Ecclesiastes 1:17

Young's Literal Translation 1898

And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is vexation of spirit;

Cross References

Psalm 73:16

And I think to know this, Perverseness it is in mine eyes,

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And I have hated life, for sad to me is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where is this--the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For an event is to the sons of man, and an event is to the beasts, even one event is to them; as the death of this, so is the death of that; and one spirit is to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

`Better is a handful with quietness, than two handfuls with labour and vexation of spirit.'

Ecclesiastes 6:9

Better is the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event is to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness is in their heart during their life, and after it--unto the dead.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

all things prove; that which is good hold fast;