Parallel Verses
New Heart English Bible
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:
American Standard Version
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
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:
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 chasing after wind. 7 Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun. 8 There is one who is alone, and he has neither son nor brother. There is no end to all of his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with wealth. For whom then, do I labor, and deprive my soul of enjoyment? This also is vanity, yes, it is a miserable business.
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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 those who 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 he consumed their days in vanity, and their years in terror.
Zechariah 1:6
But my words and my decrees, which I commanded my servants the prophets, did not they overtake your fathers? "Then they repented and said, 'Just as the LORD of hosts determined to do to us, according to our ways, and according to our practices, so he has dealt with us.'"