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Ecclesiastes 12:8

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¶ Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.

Vanity {H1892} of vanities {H1892}, saith {H559} the preacher {H6953}; all is vanity {H1892}.

Pointless! Meaningless! -says Kohelet, Nothing matters at all!

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher. “Everything is futile!”

Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.

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Cross-References

  • Ecclesiastes 1:2 (6 votes)

    Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.

  • Ecclesiastes 1:14 (2 votes)

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

  • Psalms 62:9 (2 votes)

    Surely men of low degree [are] vanity, [and] men of high degree [are] a lie: to be laid in the balance, they [are] altogether [lighter] than vanity.

  • Ecclesiastes 8:8 (2 votes)

    [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 given to it.

  • Ecclesiastes 6:12 (2 votes)

    For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • Ecclesiastes 2:17 (2 votes)

    ¶ 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.

  • Ecclesiastes 4:4 (2 votes)

    ¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.