Ecclesiastes 4:8

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

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.

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  • Prov 27:20 : 20 Sheol and destruction are not satisfied, And the eyes of man are not satisfied.
  • Eccl 1:8 : 8 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.
  • Eccl 1:13 : 13 And 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.
  • Gen 2:18 : 18 And Jehovah God saith, `Not good for the man to be alone, I do make to him an helper -- as his counterpart.'
  • Ps 39:6 : 6 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.
  • 1 John 2:16 : 16 because all that `is' in the world -- the desire of the flesh, and the desire of the eyes, and the ostentation of the life -- is not of the Father, but of the world,
  • Eccl 4:9-9 : 9 The two `are' better than the one, in that they have a good reward by their labour. 10 For if they fall, the one raiseth up his companion, but wo to the one who falleth and there is not a second to raise him up! 11 Also, if two lie down, then they have heat, but how hath one heat? 12 And if the one strengthen himself, the two stand against him; and the threefold cord is not hastily broken.
  • Eccl 5:10 : 10 Whoso is loving silver is not satisfied `with' silver, nor he who is in love with stores `with' increase. Even this `is' vanity.
  • Isa 5:8 : 8 Wo `to' those joining house to house, Field to field they bring near, till there is no place, And ye have been settled by yourselves In the midst of the land!
  • Isa 44:19-20 : 19 And none doth turn `it' back unto his heart, Nor hath knowledge nor understanding to say, `Half of it I have burned in the fire, Yea, also, I have baked bread over its coals, I roast flesh and I eat, And its remnant for an abomination I make, To the stock of a tree I fall down.' 20 Feeding on ashes, the heart is deceived, It hath turned him aside, And he delivereth not his soul, nor saith: `Is there not a lie in my right hand?'
  • Isa 55:2 : 2 Why do ye weigh money for that which is not bread? And your labour for that which is not for satiety? Hearken diligently unto me, and eat good, And your soul doth delight itself in fatness.
  • Isa 56:3-5 : 3 Nor speak let a son of the stranger, Who is joined unto Jehovah, saying: `Jehovah doth certainly separate me from His people.' Nor say let the eunuch, `Lo, I am a tree dried up,' 4 For thus said Jehovah of the eunuchs, Who do keep My sabbaths, And have fixed on that which I desired, And are keeping hold on My covenant: 5 I have given to them in My house, And within My walls a station and a name, Better than sons and than daughters, A name age-during I give to him That is not cut off.
  • Hab 2:5-9 : 5 And also, because the wine `is' treacherous, A man is haughty, and remaineth not at home, Who hath enlarged as sheol his soul, And is as death that is not satisfied, And doth gather unto itself all the nations, And doth assemble unto itself all the peoples, 6 Do not these -- all of them -- against him a simile taken up, And a moral of acute sayings for him, And say, Wo `to' him who is multiplying `what is' not his? Till when also is he multiplying to himself heavy pledges? 7 Do not thy usurers instantly rise up, And those shaking thee awake up, And thou hast been for a spoil to them? 8 Because thou hast spoiled many nations, Spoil thee do all the remnant of the peoples, Because of man's blood, and of violence `to' the land, `To' the city, and `to' all dwelling in it. 9 Wo `to' him who is gaining evil gain for his house, To set on high his nest, To be delivered from the hand of evil,
  • Matt 11:28 : 28 `Come unto me, all ye labouring and burdened ones, and I will give you rest,
  • Luke 12:20 : 20 `And God said to him, Unthinking one! this night thy soul they shall require from thee, and what things thou didst prepare -- to whom shall they be?
  • Gen 15:2-3 : 2 And Abram saith, `Lord Jehovah, what dost Thou give to me, and I am going childless? and an acquired son in my house is Demmesek Eliezer.' 3 And Abram saith, `Lo, to me Thou hast not given seed, and lo, a domestic doth heir me.'
  • Eccl 2:23 : 23 For all his days are sorrows, and his travail sadness; even at night his heart hath not lain down; this also `is' vanity.

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

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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,

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    15I have seen all the living, who are walking under the sun, with the second youth who doth stand in his place;

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    17And I have hated life, for sad to me `is' the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

    19And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.

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

    21For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

    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?

    26For 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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    2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.

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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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    8All 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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    14There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also `is' vanity.

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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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    9All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

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    5Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.

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