Ecclesiastes 12:8
All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
In Context
7And the dust goes back to the earth as it was, and the spirit goes back to God who gave it.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:2All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.
Ecclesiastes 1:17And I gave my heart to getting knowledge of wisdom, and of the ways of the foolish. And I saw that this again was desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4And I saw that the cause of all the work and of everything which is done well was man's envy of his neighbour. This again is to no purpose and a desire for wind.
Ecclesiastes 8:8No man has authority over the wind, to keep the wind; or is ruler over the day of his death. In war no man's time is free, and evil will not keep the sinner safe.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 12:2-8
The Infirmities of Old Age; The Effects of Death. 1 Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them; 2 While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: 3 In the day when the keepers of the house shall tremble, and the strong men shall bow themselves, and the grinders cease because they are few, and those that look out of the windows be darkened, 4… Read the whole commentary →