Verse List for ECC 1:2

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OET (OET-RV) “Totally pointless,” says the leader. ⇔ “A complete waste of time. Everything’s worthless.”

OET-LV Futility _of futilities Teacher he _said futility _of futilities (the)_everything is_futility.

ULT “Vapor of vapors,” says Qoheleth. ⇔  “Vapor of vapors; the whole, is vapor.”

UST The Teacher said: ⇔ Every aspect of human life is as frustratingly temporary and insubstantial ⇔  as the fading mist of my breath! ⇔  Everything is absolutely vaporous!

BSB & MSB “Futility[fn] of futilities,” ⇔  says the Teacher, ⇔ “futility of futilities! ⇔  Everything is futile!”

OEB No OEB ECC book available

CSB “Absolute futility,” says the Teacher. “Absolute futility. Everything is futile.”

NLT “Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher, “completely meaningless!”

NIV “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”

CEV Nothing makes sense! Everything is nonsense. I have seen it all--nothing makes sense!

ESV Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

NASB “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher, “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”

LSB “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher, “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity.”

WEBBE “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

WMBB “Vanity of vanities,” says Kohelet[fn]; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

MSG ^(2-11)Smoke, nothing but smoke. [That’s what the Quester says.] There’s nothing to anything—it’s all smoke. What’s there to show for a lifetime of work, a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone? One generation goes its way, the next one arrives, but nothing changes—it’s business as usual for old planet earth. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, then does it again, and again—the same old round. The wind blows south, the wind blows north. Around and around and around it blows, blowing this way, then that—the whirling, erratic wind. All the rivers flow into the sea, but the sea never fills up. The rivers keep flowing to the same old place, and then start all over and do it again. Everything’s boring, utterly boring— no one can find any meaning in it. Boring to the eye, boring to the ear. What was will be again, what happened will happen again. There’s nothing new on this earth. Year after year it’s the same old thing. Does someone call out, “Hey, this is new”? Don’t get excited—it’s the same old story. Nobody remembers what happened yesterday. And the things that will happen tomorrow? Nobody’ll remember them either. Don’t count on being remembered.

NET “Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher, ⇔ “Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”

LSV Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities: the whole [is] vanity.

FBV “Everything passes—it's so temporary! It's all so hard to understand!” says the Teacher.[fn]

T4T I say that everything is mysterious; ⇔  everything is hard for me to understand; ⇔  it is difficult to understand why everything happens.

LEB
• “Vanity of vanities!” says the Teacher,[fn]
• “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity!”

NRSV Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

NKJV “Vanity of vanities,” says the Preacher; “Vanity of vanities, all is vanity.”

NAB Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!

BBE All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

Moff Utterly vain, utterly vain ⇔  everything is vain!

JPS Vanity of vanities, saith Koheleth; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

ASV Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

DRA Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes vanity of vanities, and all is vanity.

YLT Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole [is] vanity.

Drby Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities! all is vanity.

RV Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.
(Vanity of vanities, saith/says the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.)

SLT Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; vanity of vanities, all vanity.

Wbstr Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

KJB-1769 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
(Vanity of vanities, saith/says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.)

KJB-1611 Uanitie of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)

Bshps All is but most vayne vanitie saith the preacher, & all is most vayne I say and but playne vanitie.
(All is but most vain vanity saith/says the preacher, and all is most vain I say and but plain vanity.)

Gnva Vanitie of vanities, sayth the Preacher: vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from marking of added words (and possibly capitalisation and punctuation))

Cvdl All is but vanite (saieth ye preacher) all is but playne vanite.
(All is but vanity (saith/says ye/you_all preacher) all is but plain vanity.)

Wycl The vanyte of vanytees, seide Ecclesiastes; the vanyte of vanytees, and alle thingis ben vanite.
(The vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes; the vanity of vanities, and all things been vanity.)

Luth Es ist alles ganz eitel, sprach der Prediger, es ist alles ganz eitel.
(It is all/everything all vain, spoke the/of_the preacher, it is all/everything all vain.)

ClVg [Vanitas vanitatum, dixit Ecclesiastes; vanitas vanitatum, et omnia vanitas.[fn]
([Vanity vanity, he/she_said Preacher; vanity vanity, and everything vanity.)

UHB הֲבֵ֤ל הֲבָלִים֙ אָמַ֣ר קֹהֶ֔לֶת הֲבֵ֥ל הֲבָלִ֖ים הַ⁠כֹּ֥ל הָֽבֶל׃ ‡

BrLXX Ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, εἶπεν ὁ Ἐκκλησιαστὴς, ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, τὰ πάντα ματαιότης.

BrTr Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.