Remember Your Creator
Ecclesiastes 12:8
In 11 translations
- BSB
- “Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”
- KJV
- ¶ Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
- WEB
- “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher. “All is vanity!”
- ASV
- Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
- LSV
- Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole [is] vanity.
- YLT
- Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole [is] vanity.
- DBY
- Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity.
- DRC
- Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity.
- GNV
- Vanitie of vanities, saieth the Preacher, all is vanitie.
- JPS
- Vanity of vanities, saith Koheleth; all is vanity.
- LXXE
- Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher; all is vanity.
Word by word Hebrew · tap a word
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
- הֲבֵ֧ל הֲבָלִ֛ים אָמַ֥ר הַקּוֹהֶ֖לֶת הַכֹּ֥ל הָֽבֶל׃
- LXX-Br
- Ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, εἶπεν ὁ Ἐκκλησιαστὴς, τὰ πάντα ματαιότης.
In the reference works topics that cite this verse
From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).
Cross-references most cited first
- Ecclesiastes 1:2“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
- Ecclesiastes 8:8As no man has power over the wind to contain it, so no one has authority over his day of death. As no one can be discharged in wartime, so wickedness will not release those who practice it.
- Ecclesiastes 6:12For who knows what is good for a man during the few days in which he passes through his fleeting life like a shadow? Who can tell a man what will come after him 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 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 62:9Lowborn men are but a vapor, the exalted but a lie. Weighed on the scale, they go up; together they are but a vapor.
- Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
From the OpenBible.info cross-reference set (votes from readers; not every link is a quotation or allusion).