Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity. Context Remember Your Creator in Your Youth
1Remember now your Creator in the days of your youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw near, when you shall say, I have no pleasure in them; 2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars, be not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain: 3In 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, 4And the doors shall be shut in the streets, when the sound of the grinding is low, and he shall rise up at the voice of the bird, and all the daughters of music shall be brought low; 5Also when they shall be afraid of that which is high, and fears shall be in the way, and the almond tree shall flourish, and the grasshopper shall be a burden, and desire shall fail: because man goes to his long home, and the mourners go about the streets: 6Or ever the silver cord be loosed, or the golden bowl be broken, or the pitcher be broken at the fountain, or the wheel broken at the cistern. 7Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return to God who gave it. 8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher; all is vanity. Parallel Verses American Standard Version
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; all is vanity.
Douay-Rheims Bible
Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes, and all things are vanity.
Darby Bible Translation
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: all is vanity.
King James Bible
Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
Young's Literal Translation
Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole is vanity.
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