Ecclesiastes 12:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ ‘Absolute futility,’ says the Teacher. ‘Everything is futile.’

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ Vapor of vapors and futility of futilities, says the Preacher. All is futility (emptiness, falsity, vainglory, and transitoriness)!

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

Common English Bible

⁸ Perfectly pointless, says the Teacher, everything is pointless.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all is vanity!

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity.

Ecclesiastes 12:8 Tagairtí Cros

Ecclesiastes 1:1

The words of the Teacher,  , son of David, king in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 1:12

I, the Teacher,  have been  king over Israel in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.  ,

Ecclesiastes 1:17

I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge,  madness and folly;  I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:2

‘Absolute futility,’ says the Teacher. ‘Absolute futility. Everything is futile.’

Ecclesiastes 2:17

Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

I saw that all labour and all skilful work is due to one person’s jealousy of another.  This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.  ,

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for anyone in life, in the few days of his futile life that he spends like a shadow?  Who can tell anyone what will happen after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:8

No one has authority over the wind  to restrain it,  and there is no authority over the day of death;  no one is discharged during battle, and wickedness will not allow those who practise it to escape.