Ecclesiastes 12:8
“¶ Uanitie of vanities (saith the preacher) all is vanitie.”
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Ecclesiastes 12:8 Context
6Or euer the siluer corde be loosed, or the golden bowle be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountaine, or the wheele broken at the cisterne. 7Then shall the dust returne to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall returne vnto God who gaue it. 8¶ Uanitie of vanities (saith the preacher) all is vanitie. 9And moreouer because the preacher was wise, he still taught the people knowledge, yea he gaue good heed, and sought out, and set in order many prouerbes. 10The preacher sought to finde out acceptable words, and that which was written was vpright, euen wordes of trueth.
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Other Translations for Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all [is] vanity.
- King James Version
"Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, "all is vanity!""
- New American Standard Version (1995)
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
- American Standard Version (1901)
All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.
- Basic English Bible
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity.
- Darby Bible
Vanity of vanities saith the preacher; all is vanity.
- Webster's Bible
Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher. "All is vanity!"
- World English Bible
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole [is] vanity.
- Youngs Literal Bible
Vanity of vanities, saith Koheleth; all is vanity.
- Jewish Publication Society Bible
Wesley's Notes for Ecclesiastes 12:8
12:8 Vanity - This sentence, wherewith he began this book, he here repeats in the end of it, as that which he had proved in all the foregoing discourse, and that which naturally followed from both the branches of the assertion laid down, ver.#7|.