Ecclesiastes 1:14

In 11 translations

BSB

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.

KJV

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

WEB

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

ASV

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

LSV

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and behold, the whole [is] vanity and distress of spirit!

YLT

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit!

DBY

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

DRC

I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

GNV

I haue considered all the workes that are done vnder the sunne, and beholde, all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.

JPS

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

LXXE

I beheld all the works that were wrought under the sun; and, behold, all were vanity and waywardness of spirit.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

רָאִ֨יתִי֙ אֶת־כָּל־הַֽמַּעֲשִׂ֔ים שֶֽׁנַּעֲשׂ֖וּ תַּ֣חַת הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ וְהִנֵּ֥ה הַכֹּ֛ל הֶ֖בֶל וּרְע֥וּת רֽוּחַ׃

LXX-Br

Εἶδον σύμπαντα τὰ ποιήματα τὰ πεποιημένα ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον· καὶ ἰδοὺ τὰ πάντα ματαιότης καὶ προαίρεσις πνεύματος.

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Cross-references most cited first

• 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…
• Ecclesiastes 6:9Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
• Ecclesiastes 1:17–18So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.
• 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.
• Psalms 39:5–6You, 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 Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he…
• 1 Kings 4:30–32Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt. He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of…

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