Ecclesiastes 1:2

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Ecclesiastes 1:2

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

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I looked at all the works my hands accomplished. I saw everything I had worked to do. I saw that all was vanity and grasping for the wind. It was to no purpose for there was no profit under the sun.

What happens to the sons of men also happens to animals. As the one dies so the other dies. Yes, they all have one breath so that a man has no advantage over animals. For all is vanity.

I have learned why people work so hard to succeed. It is because they envy the things their neighbors have. But it is vanity! It is like chasing the wind.

He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth, with gain. This too is vanity.

Seeing there is much that increases futility, what outcome is there for man?

If a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

Indeed, you have made the length of my days very short. My life span is nothing compared to yours. Certainly, everyone alive is like a whisper in the wind.

Common people are only a vapor in the wind. Important people are only a delusion. When all of them are weighed on a scale, they amount to nothing. They are less than a vapor in the wind.

Man is like a mere breath. His days are like a passing shadow.

For the creation was subject to corruption, not by it's own will but by reason of the one who subjected it on the basis of hope.