Parallel Verses
American Standard Version
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
New American Standard Bible
Then I looked again at vanity under the sun.
King James Version
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Holman Bible
Again, I saw futility under the sun:
International Standard Version
Then I turned to re-examine something else that is pointless on earth:
Amplified
Then I looked again at vanity under the sun [in one of its peculiar forms].
Bible in Basic English
Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.
Darby Translation
And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Julia Smith Translation
And I turned back, and I shall see vanity under the sun.
King James 2000
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Lexham Expanded Bible
I turned again and saw another vanity under the sun.
Modern King James verseion
And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Moreover, I turned me, and behold yet another vanity under the Sun.
NET Bible
So I again considered another futile thing on earth:
New Heart English Bible
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
The Emphasized Bible
Then again, I, looked at a vain thing under the sun: -
Webster
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
World English Bible
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:
Interlinear
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References
Morish
Word Count of 19 Translations in Ecclesiastes 4:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wealth Without Someone With Which To Enjoy It Is Futile
6 Better is a handful, with quietness, than two handfuls with labor and striving after wind. 7 Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun. 8 There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then,'saith he , do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
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Cross References
Ecclesiastes 4:1
Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and, behold, the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
Psalm 78:33
Therefore their days did he consume in vanity, And their years in terror.
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my statutes, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did they not overtake your fathers? and they turned and said, Like as Jehovah of hosts thought to do unto us, according to our ways, and according to our doings, so hath he dealt with us.