Ecclesiastes 2:15 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁵ And I said in my heart: "If the death of both the foolish and myself will be one, how does it benefit me, if I have given myself more thoroughly to the work of wisdom?" And as I was speaking within my own mind, I perceived that this, too, is emptiness.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁵ Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁵ Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it will happen even to me. And of what use is it then for me to be more wise? Then I said in my heart, This also is vanity (emptiness, vainglory, and futility)!

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁵ Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so will it happen even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then said I in my heart, that this also is vanity.

Common English Bible

¹⁵ So I thought to myself, What happens to the fool will also happen to me. So why have I been so very wise? I said to myself, This too is pointless.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁵ And I said in my heart: If the death of the fool and mine shall be one, what doth it avail me, that I have applied myself more to the study of wisdom? And speaking with my own mind, I perceived that this also was vanity.

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁵ 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.

Ecclesiastes 2:15 Tagairtí Cros

1 Kings 3:12

behold, I have done for you according to your words, and I have given you a wise and understanding heart, so much so that there has been no one like you before you, nor anyone who will rise up after you.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: all is emptiness and an affliction of the spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:16

I have spoken in my heart, saying: "Behold, I have achieved greatness, and I have surpassed all the wise who were before me in Jerusalem." And my mind has contemplated many things wisely, and I have learned.

Ecclesiastes 1:18

Because of this, with much wisdom there is also much anger. And whoever adds knowledge, also adds hardship.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

Ecclesiastes said: Vanity of vanities! Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity!

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there will not be a remembrance in perpetuity of the wise, nor of the foolish. And the future times will cover everything together, with oblivion. The learned die in a manner similar to the unlearned.

Ecclesiastes 6:11

There are many words, and many of these, in disputes, hold much emptiness.

Ecclesiastes 6:8

What do the wise have which is more than the foolish? And what does the pauper have, except to continue on to that place, where there is life?