Ecclesiastes 1:2

Young's Literal Translation 1898

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole [is] vanity.

Cross References

Job 11:12

And empty man is bold, And the colt of a wild ass man is born.

Psalm 144:4

Man to vanity hath been like, His days [are] as a shadow passing by.

Psalm 89:47

Remember, I pray Thee, what [is] life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

Ecclesiastes 11:10

And turn aside anger from thy heart, And cause evil to pass from thy flesh, For the childhood and the age [are] vanity!

Ecclesiastes 11:8

But, if man liveth many years, In all of them let him rejoice, And remember the days of darkness, For they are many! all that is coming [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

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

Ecclesiastes 2:11

and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

Ecclesiastes 2:15

and I said in my heart, ‘As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?’ And I spake in my heart, that also this [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 2:19

And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:21

For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it — his portion! Even this [is] vanity and a great evil.

Ecclesiastes 2:23

For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to a man who [is] good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:8

I gathered for me also silver and gold, and the peculiar treasure of kings and of the provinces. I prepared for me men-singers and women-singers, and the luxuries of the sons of man — a wife and wives.

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 4:16

there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

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 4:8

There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and [he saith not], ‘For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?’ This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.

Ecclesiastes 5:10

Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied [with] silver, nor he who is in love with stores [with] increase. Even this [is] vanity.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage [is] to man?

Romans 8:20

for to vanity was the creation made subject — not of its will, but because of Him who did subject [it] — in hope,