Ecclesiastes 1:17 - Catholic Public Domain Version

¹⁷ And I have dedicated my heart, so that I may know prudence and doctrine, and also error and foolishness. Yet I recognize that, in these things also, there is hardship, and affliction of the spirit.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹⁷ And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹⁷ And I gave my mind to know [practical] wisdom and to discern [the character of] madness and folly [in which men seem to find satisfaction]; I perceived that this also is a searching after wind and a feeding on it. [I Thess. 5:21.]

American Standard Version (1901)

¹⁷ And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

Common English Bible

¹⁷ But when I set my mind to understand wisdom, and also to understand madness and folly, I realized that this too was just wind chasing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

¹⁷ And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,

English Standard Version 2016

¹⁷ And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:17 交叉引用

Psalm 73:16

Yours is the day, and yours is the night. You have made the morning light and the sun.

Ecclesiastes 12:8

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

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And, because of this, my life wearied me, since I saw that everything under the sun is evil, and everything is empty and an affliction of the spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:3

I decided in my heart to withdraw my flesh from wine, so that I might bring my mind to wisdom, and turn away from foolishness, until I see what is useful for the sons of men, and what they ought to do under the sun, during the number of the days of their life.

Ecclesiastes 3:19

For this reason, the passing away of man and of beasts is one, and the condition of both is equal. For as a man dies, so also do they die. All things breathe similarly, and man has nothing more than beast; for all these are subject to vanity.

Ecclesiastes 4:4

Again, I was contemplating all the labors of men. And I took notice that their endeavors are open to the envy of their neighbor. And so, in this, too, there is emptiness and superfluous anxiety.

Ecclesiastes 4:6

"A handful with rest is better than both hands filled with labors and with affliction of the soul."

Ecclesiastes 6:9

It is better to see what you desire, than to desire what you cannot know. But this, too, is emptiness and a presumption of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 8:16

And I applied my heart, so that I might know wisdom, and so that I might understand a disturbance that turns upon the earth: it is a man, who takes no sleep with his eyes, day and night.

Ecclesiastes 9:3

This is a very great burden among all things that are done under the sun: that the same things happen to everyone. And when the hearts of the sons of men are filled with malice and contempt in their lives, afterwards they shall be dragged down to hell.

1 Thessalonians 5:21

But test all things. Hold on to whatever is good.