Verse 14

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!

Referenced Verses

• 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 2:17 : 17 And 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.
• 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.
• Eccl 4:4 : 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.
• Eccl 6:9 : 9 Better `is' the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.
• Eccl 1:17-18 : 17 And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit; 18 for, in abundance of wisdom `is' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'
• 1 Kgs 4:30-32 : 30 and the wisdom of Solomon is greater than the wisdom of any of the sons of the east, and than all the wisdom of Egypt; 31 and he is wiser than all men, than Ethan the Ezrahite, and Heman, and Chalcol, and Darda, sons of Mahol, and his name is in all the nations round about. 32 And he speaketh three thousand similes, and his songs `are' five, and the chief one;
• Ps 39:5-6 : 5 Lo, handbreadths Thou hast made my days, And mine age `is' as nothing before Thee, Only, all vanity `is' every man set up. Selah. 6 Only, in an image doth each walk habitually, Only, `in' vain, they are disquieted, He heapeth up and knoweth not who gathereth them.