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;