Ecclesiastes 1:2 · KJV
“Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all {is} vanity.”
— Ecclesiastes 1:2
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
Ecclesiastes 1 — Context
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all {is} vanity.
3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
4{One} generation passeth away, and {another} generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Cross References
Psalms 144:4
Man is like to vanity: his days {are} as a shadow that passeth away.
Romans 8:20
For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected {the same} in hope,
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this {is} also vanity.
Psalms 39:5-6
Behold, thou hast made my days {as} an handbreadth; and mine age {is} as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state {is} altogether vanity. Selah. {at...: Heb. settled}
Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all {is} vanity.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For {God} giveth to a man that {is} good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to {him that is} good before God. This also {is} vanity and vexation of spirit. {in his...: Heb. before him}
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all {was} vanity and vexation of spirit, and {there was} no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:19
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise {man} or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This {is} also vanity.
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