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Ecclesiastes 1:2
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
2*Uanitie of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.
- Chap.12.9 psal.144.4. psal.36.6. and 62.9.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ecclesiastes 1:2
Emptiness, worthlessness, transience, futile desire, or excessive self-regard.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Empty, false, fleeting, or worthless things; also idols or deceptive objects of trust, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
One who publicly proclaims or teaches a message; the KJV context identifies the person and message.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Wholly, entirely, or altogether; every one or the whole amount, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Open the full verse study4Man is like to vanity: his days are as a shadow that passeth away.
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Open the full verse study20For the creature was made subject to vanity, not willingly, but by reason of him who hath subjected the same in hope,
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Open the full verse study10He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity.
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Open the full verse study5Behold, thou hast made my days as an handbreadth; and mine age is as nothing before thee: verily every man at his best state is altogether vanity. Selah.
6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up riches, and knoweth not who shall gather them.
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Open the full verse study8¶ Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.
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Open the full verse study26For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Open the full verse study11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.
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Open the full verse study17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Open the full verse study19And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.
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Open the full verse study23For all his days are sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.
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Open the full verse study10Therefore remove sorrow from thy heart, and put away evil from thy flesh: for childhood and youth are vanity.
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Open the full verse study15Then said I in my heart, As it happeneth to the fool, so it happeneth even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.
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Open the full verse study21For there is a man whose labour is in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.
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Open the full verse study19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.
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Open the full verse study4¶ Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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Open the full verse study8There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
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Open the full verse study11¶ Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?
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Open the full verse study9Surely men of low degree are vanity, and men of high degree are a lie: to be laid in the balance, they are altogether lighter than vanity.
10Trust not in oppression, and become not vain in robbery: if riches increase, set not your heart upon them.
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Open the full verse study8But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.
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Open the full verse study16There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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