Ecclesiastes 2:17
What does Ecclesiastes 2:17 mean?
A plain-English look at Ecclesiastes 2:17 in WEB alongside six other public-domain English translations, with cross-references and chapter context.
Parallel translations
WEB
World English Bible · 2000So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
KJV
King James Version · 1611Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
ASV
American Standard Version · 1901So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.
BBE
Bible in Basic English · 1949So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.
YLT
Young's Literal Translation · 1862And I have hated life, for sad to me <FI>is<Fi> the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole <FI>is<Fi> vanity and vexation of spirit.
DRA
Douay-Rheims (Challoner) · 1752And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.
DBY
Darby Bible · 1890And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
Context
v.16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!
v.17This passage
v.18And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.
Cross references
Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.
- Habakkuk 1:3
Why dost thou show me iniquity, and look upon perverseness? for destruction and violence are before me; and there is strife, and contention riseth up.
- Ecclesiastes 2:22
For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?
- 1 Kings 19:4
But he himself went a day’s journey into the wilderness, and came and sat down under a juniper-tree: and he requested for himself that he might die, and said, It is enough; now, O Jehovah, take away my life; for I am not better than my fathers.
- Jeremiah 20:14
Cursed be the day wherein I was born: let not the day wherein my mother bare me be blessed.
- Ecclesiastes 6:9
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.
- Job 7:15
So that my soul chooseth strangling, And death rather than these my bones.
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