Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
Ecclesiastes 6:11 - English Standard Version 2016 The more words, the more vanity, and what is the advantage to man? Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? Amplified Bible - Classic Edition Seeing that there are [all these and] many other things and words that increase the emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and futility [of living], what profit and what outcome is there for man? American Standard Version (1901) Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better? Common English Bible Because the more words increase, the more everything is pointless. What do people gain by it? Catholic Public Domain Version There are many words, and many of these, in disputes, hold much emptiness. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version There are many words that have much vanity in disputing. |
Therefore pride is their necklace; violence covers them as a garment.
Then I said in my heart, “What happens to the fool will happen to me also. Why then have I been so very wise?” And I said in my heart that this also is vanity.
For what happens to the children of man and what happens to the beasts is the same; as one dies, so dies the other. They all have the same breath, and man has no advantage over the beasts, for all is vanity.
There was no end of all the people, all of whom he led. Yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
For when dreams increase and words grow many, there is vanity; but God is the one you must fear.
Whatever has come to be has already been named, and it is known what man is, and that he is not able to dispute with one stronger than he.
For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?
Ephraim feeds on the wind and pursues the east wind all day long; they multiply falsehood and violence; they make a covenant with Assyria, and oil is carried to Egypt.