Ecclesiastes 1:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.

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  • Prov 27:20 : 20 Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.
  • Eccl 4:8 : 8 There is one, and there is not a second; even son or brother he hath not, and there is no end to all his labour! His eye also is not satisfied with riches, and `he saith not', `For whom am I labouring and bereaving my soul of good?' This also is vanity, it is a sad travail.
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,
  • Eccl 4:1-4 : 1 And I have turned, and I see all the oppressions that are done under the sun, and lo, the tear of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and at the hand of their oppressors `is' power, and they have no comforter. 2 And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive. 3 And better than both of them `is' he who hath not yet been, in that he hath not seen the evil work that hath been done under the sun. 4 And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.
  • Rev 7:16-17 : 16 they shall not hunger any more, nor may the sun fall upon them, nor any heat, 17 because the Lamb that `is' in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters, and wipe away shall God every tear from their eyes.'
  • Ps 63:5 : 5 As `with' milk and fatness is my soul satisfied, And `with' singing lips doth my mouth praise.
  • Rom 8:22-23 : 22 for we have known that all the creation doth groan together, and doth travail in pain together till now. 23 And not only `so', but also we ourselves, having the first-fruit of the Spirit, we also ourselves in ourselves do groan, adoption expecting -- the redemption of our body;
  • Eccl 5:10-11 : 10 Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied `with' silver, nor he who is in love with stores `with' increase. Even this `is' vanity. 11 In the multiplying of good have its consumers been multiplied, and what benefit `is' to its possessor except the sight of his eyes?
  • Eccl 7:24-26 : 24 Far off `is' that which hath been, and deep, deep, who doth find it? 25 I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness. 26 And I am finding more bitter than death, the woman whose heart `is' nets and snares, her hands `are' bands; the good before God escapeth from her, but the sinner is captured by her.
  • Matt 5:6 : 6 `Happy those hungering and thirsting for righteousness -- because they shall be filled.
  • Prov 30:15-16 : 15 To the leech `are' two daughters, `Give, give, Lo, three things are not satisfied, Four have not said `Sufficiency;' 16 Sheol, and a restrained womb, Earth -- it `is' not satisfied `with' water, And fire -- it hath not said, `Sufficiency,'
  • Eccl 2:11 : 11 and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!
  • Eccl 2:26 : 26 For to a man who `is' good before Him, He hath given wisdom, and knowledge, and joy; and to a sinner He hath given travail, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good before God. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

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    7All the labour of man `is' for his mouth, and yet the soul is not filled.

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    13And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

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    16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

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    10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

    11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

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    6`Better `is' a handful `with' quietness, than two handfuls `with' labour and vexation of spirit.'

    7And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

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    2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.

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    20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

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    22For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

    23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.

    24There is nothing good in a man who eateth, and hath drunk, and hath shewn his soul good in his labour. This also I have seen that it `is' from the hand of God.

    25For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

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    9Better `is' the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

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    8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

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    9What advantage hath the doer in that which he is labouring at?

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    10Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied `with' silver, nor he who is in love with stores `with' increase. Even this `is' vanity.

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    4And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

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    22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

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    17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;

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