Ecclesiastes 2:17
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
KJV
Et idcirco tæduit me vitæ meæ, videntem mala universa esse sub sole, et cuncta vanitatem et afflictionem spiritus.
Vulgate
καὶ ἐμίσησα σὺν τὴν ζωήν, ὅτι πονηρὸν ἐπ’ ἐμὲ τὸ ποίημα τὸ πεποιημένον ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον, ὅτι πάντα ματαιότης καὶ προαίρεσις πνεύματος.
LXX
So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
ASV
וְ/שָׂנֵ֨אתִי֙ אֶת הַ֣/חַיִּ֔ים כִּ֣י רַ֤ע עָלַ/י֙ הַֽ/מַּעֲשֶׂ֔ה שֶׁ/נַּעֲשָׂ֖ה תַּ֣חַת הַ/שָּׁ֑מֶשׁ כִּֽי הַ/כֹּ֥ל הֶ֖בֶל וּ/רְע֥וּת רֽוּחַ
Hebrew
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In the original Hebrew
14 distinct Hebrew words appear in this verse.
Historic Christian voices
4 passages from patristic writers, Reformers, and church catechisms citing this verse.
Cross-references
- Eccl 1:2 — Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Eccl 1:14 — I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Eccl 2:11 — Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
- Eccl 2:21 — For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
- Eccl 3:1 — To every thing there is a season, and a time to every purpose under the heaven:
- Eccl 4:2 — Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
- Eccl 4:2 — Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
- Eccl 4:16 — There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
- Eccl 5:10 — He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
- Job 14:1 — Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- John 12:25 — He that loveth his life shall lose it; and he that hateth his life in this world shall keep it unto life eternal.
- Jonah 4:8 — And it came to pass, when the sun did arise, that God prepared a vehement east wind; and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and wished in himself to die, and said, It is better for
- Luke 14:26 — If any man come to me, and hate not his father, and mother, and wife, and children, and brethren, and sisters, yea, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.
- 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.