Ecclesiastes 1:14
BSB · Public Domain (CC0)“I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.”
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“I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.”
Berean Standard Bible · Public Domain (CC0)“I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.”
King James Version · Public Domain“I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.”
American Standard Version · Public Domain“I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole <FI>is<Fi> vanity and vexation of spirit!”
Young's Literal Translation · Public DomainOther passages that echo Ecclesiastes 1:14 — 12 related verses from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- 1 Kings 4:30Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.
- Psalms 39:5You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah
- Ecclesiastes 1:17So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:11Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.
- Ecclesiastes 2:17So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 2:26To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 3:19For the fates of both men and beasts are the same: As one dies, so dies the other—they all have the same breath. Man has no advantage over the animals, since everything is futile.
- Ecclesiastes 4:4I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 4:6Better one handful with tranquility than two handfuls with toil and pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 4:16There is no limit to all the people who were before them. Yet the successor will not be celebrated by those who come even later. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 6:9Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
- Ecclesiastes 12:8“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”
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