Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous to me. For all is vanity and a striving after wind.
New American Standard Bible
So I
King James Version
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.
Holman Bible
Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.
International Standard Version
So I hated life, because whatever is done on earth causes me trouble it's all pointless, like chasing after the wind.
American Standard Version
So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Amplified
So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun caused me only great sorrow; because all is futility and chasing after the wind.
Bible in Basic English
So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
Darby Translation
And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
Julia Smith Translation
And I hated life, for evil to me the work done under the sun: for all vanity and striving of the spirit
King James 2000
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and like grasping the wind.
Lexham Expanded Bible
So I hated life because the work done under the sun [is] grievous to me. For everything [is] vanity and chasing wind!
Modern King James verseion
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is sad to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Thus began I to be weary of my life, in so much that I could away with nothing that is done under the Sun, for all was but vanity and vexation of mind:
NET Bible
So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile -- like chasing the wind.
New Heart English Bible
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
The Emphasized Bible
Therefore I hated life, for, a vexation unto me, was the work which was done under the sun, - for, all, was vanity, and a feeding on wind.
Webster
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
World English Bible
So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Themes
Life » Of the spirit » Weariness of
Life » Conditions of receiving » Hated
Life » Sacredness of, an inference from what is taught in the law concerning murder » Hated
Interlinear
Shemesh
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 2:17
Verse Info
Context Readings
Is There Real Happiness In Life?
16 For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how the wise man dies even as the fool! 17 So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous to me. For all is vanity and a striving after wind. 18 And I hated all my labor in which I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it to the man who shall be after me.
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Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do, and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
Numbers 11:15
And if thou deal thus with me, kill me, I pray thee, out of hand, if I have found favor in thy sight, and let me not see my wretchedness.
1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day's journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper tree. And he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough, now, O LORD, take away my life, for I am no better than my
Job 3:20-22
Why is light given to him who is in misery, and life to the bitter in soul,
Job 7:15-16
so that my soul chooses strangling and death rather than [these] my bones.
Job 14:13
O that thou would hide me in Sheol, that thou would keep me secret, until thy wrath be past, that thou would appoint for me a set time, and remember me!
Psalm 89:47
O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart in which he labors under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed be the day in which I was born. Let not the day in which my mother bore me be blessed.
Ezekiel 3:14
So the Spirit lifted me up, and took me away. And I went in bitterness, in the heat of my spirit, and the hand of LORD was strong upon me.
Jonah 4:3
Therefore now, O LORD, I beseech thee, take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.
Jonah 4:8
And it came to pass, when the sun arose, that God prepared a sultry east wind, and the sun beat upon the head of Jonah, that he fainted, and requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is better for me to die than to live
Habakkuk 1:3
Why do thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? For destruction and violence are before me, and there is strife, and contention rises up.
Philippians 1:23-25
And I am constrained by the two, having the desire to depart and be with Christ, being far better.