Ecclesiastes 2:11 - Tree of Life Version

Yet when I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended to accomplish it, behold, it all was futile and chasing after the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

Then I looked on all that my hands had done and the labor I had spent in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after the wind and a feeding on it, and there was no profit under the sun. [Matt. 16:26.]

American Standard Version (1901)

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Common English Bible

But when I surveyed all that my hands had done, and what I had worked so hard to achieve, I realized that it was pointless—a chasing after wind. Nothing is to be gained under the sun.

Catholic Public Domain Version

But when I turned myself toward all the works that my hands had made, and to the labors in which I had perspired to no purpose, I saw emptiness and affliction of the soul in all things, and that nothing is permanent under the sun.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:11 Tagairtí Cros

Genesis 1:31

So God saw everything that He made, and behold it was very good. So there was evening and there was morning—the sixth day.

Psalm 89:47

How long, Adonai, will You hide Yourself? Forever? Will Your fury keep burning like fire?

Exodus 39:43

When Moses saw the entire work, and that they had done it just as Adonai had commanded, Moses blessed them.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the deeds done under the sun; and behold, all is meaningless and chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17

So I applied my heart to know wisdom as well as to know madness and folly. I learned that this too was pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:3

What does a person gain in all his labor that he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 3:9

What gain, then, does the laborer get with his toil?

Ecclesiastes 5:10

When goods increase, so do those who consume them. So what advantage are they to the owner except he sees it with his eyes?

Ecclesiastes 5:16

So, all his days he eats in darkness, and he has much grief, sickness, and humiliation.

Habakkuk 2:13

Behold, is it not from Adonai-Tzva’ot that peoples toil to fuel a fire, and nations exhaust themselves for emptiness?

1 Timothy 6:6

Now godliness with contentment is great gain.