Ecclesiastes 2:17 Parallel Translations

So I came to hate life because everything done under the sun seemed wrong to me. Everything was pointless. It was like trying to catch the wind.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

ASV:

So I hated life, because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

BBE:

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

DBY:

And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.

ERV:

So I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me: for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

JPS:

So I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

WBS:

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

WEB:

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

YLT:

And I have hated life, for sad to me is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 Cross References

XREF:

Ecclesiastes 4:2 So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.

Ecclesiastes 4:3 But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

WES:

2:17 Life - My life was a burden to me. Is grievous - All human designs and works are so far from yielding me satisfaction, that the consideration of them increases my discontent.

MHC:

2:12-17 Solomon found that knowledge and prudence were preferable to ignorance and folly, though human wisdom and knowledge will not make a man happy. The most learned of men, who dies a stranger to Christ Jesus, will perish equally with the most ignorant; and what good can commendations on earth do to the body in the grave, or the soul in hell? And the spirits of just men made perfect cannot want them. So that if this were all, we might be led to hate our life, as it is all vanity and vexation of spirit.

CONC:

Chasing Desire Evil Futility Grievous Hated Hating Meaningless Purpose Pursuit Sad Spirit Striving Vanity Vexation Wind Worked Wrought

Chasing Evil Futility Grievous Hated Hating Life Meaningless Purpose Pursuit Sad Spirit Striving Sun Vanity Vexation Whole Wind Work Worked Wrought

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