ECC 4:7 Parallel Verse View

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Text critical issues=none Clarity of original=clear Importance to us=normal (All still tentative.)

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Καὶ ἐπέστρεψα ἐγὼ, καὶ εἶδον ματαιότητα ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον.
(Kai epestrepsa egō, kai eidon mataiotaʸta hupo ton haʸlion. )

UST I thought about something else that happens on the earth that seems useless.

OEB Here is another of the illusions that I have

WEBBE Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET So I again considered another futile thing on earth:

LSV And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

FBV Then I turned to consider something else here on earth that is also frustratingly hard to understand.

T4T ¶ I thought about something else that happens on the earth [MTY] that seems senseless.

LEB No LEB ECC book available

BBE Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.

Moff No Moff ECC book available

JPS Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

ASV Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

DRA Considering I found also another vanity under the sun:

YLT And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

Drby And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

RV Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

SLT And I turned back, and I shall see vanity under the sun.

Wbstr Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

KJB-1769 ¶ Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

KJB-1611 ¶ Then I returned, and I saw vanitie vnder the Sunne.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from capitalisation)

Bshps No Bshps ECC book available

Gnva Againe I returned, and sawe vanitie vnder the sunne.
(Again I returned, and saw vanity under the sun. )

Cvdl No Cvdl ECC book available

Wycl No Wycl ECC book available

Luth No Luth ECC book available

ClVg Considerans, reperi et aliam vanitatem sub sole.
(Considering, find and another vanity under sole. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT ECC book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

(Occurrence 0) futility

(Some words not found in UHB: and,again I and,saw Abel below/instead_of the,sun )

being useless, without profit

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) more vanishing vapor

(Some words not found in UHB: and,again I and,saw Abel below/instead_of the,sun )

“more vanishing mist.” The author speaks of things as being useless and meaningless as if they were vapor. See how you translated “vapor” in [Ecclesiastes 1:14](../01/14.md). Alternate translation: “more things that are as useless as vapor” or “more meaningless things”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

(Occurrence 0) under the sun

(Some words not found in UHB: and,again I and,saw Abel below/instead_of the,sun )

This refers to things that are done on earth. See how you translated this in [Ecclesiastes 1:3](../01/03.md). Alternate translation: “on the earth”

Note 3 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) vapor

(Some words not found in UHB: and,again I and,saw Abel below/instead_of the,sun )

“mist.” The author speaks of things as being useless and meaningless as if they were vapor. See how you translated this in [Ecclesiastes 1:14](../01/14.md). Alternate translation: “as useless as vapor” or “meaningless”

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