Verse 14
Ecclesiastes 1:14
Literal Standard Version
14
I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and behold, the whole is vanity and distress of spirit!
Original Language Text
hebrew
רָאִ֨יתִי֙ אֶת כָּל הַֽ/מַּעֲשִׂ֔ים שֶֽׁ/נַּעֲשׂ֖וּ תַּ֣חַת הַ/שָּׁ֑מֶשׁ וְ/הִנֵּ֥ה הַ/כֹּ֛ל הֶ֖בֶל וּ/רְע֥וּת רֽוּחַ
English Translation
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
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Chapter 1 Context
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Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
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Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.
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What advantage is to man by all his labor that he labors at under the sun?
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A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth is standing for all time.
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Also, the sun has risen, and the sun has gone in, and to its place panting it is rising there.
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Going to the south, and turning around to the north, turning around, turning around, the wind is goi...
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All the streams are going to the sea, and the sea is not full; to a place to where the streams are g...
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All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor i...
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What is that which has been? It is that which is, and what is that which has been done? It is that w...
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There is a thing of which one says: “See this, it is new!” Already it has been in the ages that were...
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There is not a remembrance of former generations; and also of the latter that are, there is no remem...
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I, a preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.
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And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that has been done unde...
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I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and behold, the whole is vanity and dis...
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A crooked thing one is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered.
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I spoke with my heart, saying, “I, behold, have magnified and added wisdom above everyone who has be...
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And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this is di...
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for in abundance of wisdom is abundance of sadness, and he who adds knowledge adds pain.”
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