Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all is vanity!
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
In Context
7and the dust returns to its earth, from which it was, and the spirit returns to God, who granted it.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:2Ecclesiastes said: Vanity of vanities! Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity!
Ecclesiastes 1:17And I have dedicated my heart, so that I may know prudence and doctrine, and also error and foolishness. Yet I recognize that, in these things also, there is hardship, and affliction of the spirit.
Ecclesiastes 4:4Again, I was contemplating all the labors of men. And I took notice that their endeavors are open to the envy of their neighbor. And so, in this, too, there is emptiness and superfluous anxiety.
Ecclesiastes 8:8It is not in the power of a man to prohibit the spirit, nor does he have authority over the day of death, nor is he permitted to rest when war breaks out, and neither will impiety save the impious.
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 →