◄ Ecclesiastes 4:7 ►
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Good News Translation
I have noticed something else in life that is useless.

New Revised Standard Version
Again, I saw vanity under the sun:

Contemporary English Version
Once again I saw that nothing on earth makes sense.

New American Bible
Again I saw this vanity under the sun:

Douay-Rheims Bible
Considering I found also another vanity under the sun:

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Considering I found also another vanity under the sun:

Psalm 78:33 And their days were consumed in vanity, and their years in haste.

Zechariah 1:6 But yet my words, and my ordinances, which I gave in charge to my servants the prophets, did they not take hold of your fathers, and they returned, and said: As the Lord of hosts thought to do to us according to our ways, and according to our devices, so he hath done to us.

Context
The Evil of Oppression
…6Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind. 7Considering I found also another vanity under the sun:8There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 4:6
Better is a handful with rest, than both hands full with labour, and vexation of mind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.

Ecclesiastes 4:6
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