Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
KJV
Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes, et omnia vanitas.
Vulgate
ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, εἶπεν ὁ ἐκκλησιαστής, τὰ πάντα ματαιότης.
LXX
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
ASV
הֲבֵ֧ל הֲבָלִ֛ים אָמַ֥ר הַ/קּוֹהֶ֖לֶת הַ/כֹּ֥ל הָֽבֶל
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
4 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
הָֽבֶל
hbl
noun · 73×
יֹּ֣אמֶר
y'mr
verb · 5290×
כָּל
kl
noun · 5376×
קֹהֶ֔לֶת
qhlt
noun · 7×
Historic Christian voices
5 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
1. He has shown from the Priest, from the Priesthood, from the Covenant, that that [dispensation] was to have an end. From this point he shows it from the fashion of the tabernacle itself. How? This, he says, [was] the Holy and the Holy of Holies. The holy place then is a symbol of the former period (for there all things are done by means of sacrifices); but the Holy of Holies …
Cross-references
- 1Tim 2:7 — Whereunto I am ordained a preacher, and an apostle, (I speak the truth in Christ, and lie not;) a teacher of the Gentiles in faith and verity.
- Eccl 1:1 — The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
- Eccl 1:2 — Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Eccl 1:2 — Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Eccl 7:27 — Behold, this have I found, saith the preacher, counting one by one, to find out the account:
- Eccl 8:8 — There is no man that hath power over the spirit to retain the spirit; neither hath he power in the day of death: and there is no discharge in that war; neither shall wickedness deliver those that are
- Jer 2:13 — For my people have committed two evils; they have forsaken me the fountain of living waters, and hewed them out cisterns, broken cisterns, that can hold no water.
- Prov 23:5 — Wilt thou set thine eyes upon that which is not? for riches certainly make themselves wings; they fly away as an eagle toward heaven.
- Ps 39:6 — Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
- Ps 144:4 — Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.