Ecclesiastes 12:8
Vanity of vanities, saith the Proclaimer, all, is vanity.
The Emphasised Bible by J. B. Rotherham
In The King James Version
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
In Context
7And the dust return to the earth, as it was,—and, the spirit, return unto God, who gave it.
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:2Vanity of vanities! saith the Proclaimer, vanity of vanities! all, is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 1:17yea I have given my heart, to know wisdom, and to know madness, and folly,—I know that, even this, is a feeding on wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:4Then saw, I, all the toil and all the skill of the work, that, for this, a man was envied of his neighbour,—even this, was vanity, and a feeding on wind.
Ecclesiastes 8:8No man, hath power over the spirit, to retain the spirit, and, none, hath power over the day of death, and there is no furlough in war,—neither shall lawlessness deliver them who are given thereto.
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 →