Parallel Verses
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
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.
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.
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.
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 no remembrance for the wise with the foolish one forever, since in the days coming, all being forgotten. And how will the wise die? with the foolish one. 17 And I hated life, for evil to me the work done under the sun: for all vanity and striving of the spirit 18 And I hated all my labor I laboring under the sun: leaving it to the man who shall come after me.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 2:11
And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.
Numbers 11:15
And if so thou doest to me, killing, kill me now, if I found grace in thine eyes; and I shall not look upon my evil
1 Kings 19:4
And he went into the desert the way of a day, and he will come and sit under one broom-tree: and he will ask for his soul to die: and he will say, Much now, O Jehovah, Take my soul, for I am not good above my fathers.
Job 3:20-22
Wherefore shall light be given to him toiling, and life to the bitter of soul?
Job 7:15-16
And my soul will choose strangling; death rather than my bones.
Job 14:13
Who will give thou wilt hide me in hades? wilt thou cover me till the turning away of thine anger? wilt thou set for me a limit, and wilt thou remember me?
Psalm 89:47
Remember me what is life: wherefore in vain didst thou create all the sons of man?
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I saw all the works they did under the sun; and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit
Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what was to man in all his labor, and in the striving of his heart, he labored under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 3:16
And yet I saw under the sun the place of judgment, there the unjust one; and the place of the just one, there the unjust one.
Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I praise the dead already dead more than the living they yet living.
Ecclesiastes 6:9
Good the sight of the eyes above the going of the soul. Also this is vanity and striving of spirit
Jeremiah 20:14-18
Cursed the day which I was born in it; the day which my mother brought me forth shall not be blessed.
Ezekiel 3:14
And the spirit lifted me up, and it will take me and I shall go bitter, in the heat of my spirit; and the hand of Jehovah was strong upon me.
Jonah 4:3
And now, O Jehovah, take now my soul from me, for it is good for me to die rather than for me to live.
Jonah 4:8
And it will be as the sun rose, and God will appoint a sultry east wind; and the sun struck upon the head of Jonah, and he will faint, and he will ask his soul to die, and say, It is good for me to die rather than live.
Habakkuk 1:3
Wherefore wilt thou cause me to see vanity and cause me to look at labor? and oppression and violence before me, and there will be contention, and strife will be raised up.
Philippians 1:23-25
For I am pressed together from two, having one eager desire to be loosed, and be with Christ (rather much better:)