Ecclesiastes 2:15

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

and I said in my heart, `As it happeneth with the fool, it happeneth also with me, and why am I then more wise?' And I spake in my heart, that also this `is' vanity:

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 6:8 : 8 For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?
  • 1 Kgs 3:12 : 12 lo, I have done according to thy words; lo, I have given to thee a heart, wise and understanding, that like thee there hath not been before thee, and after thee there doth not arise like thee;
  • Eccl 1:2 : 2 Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.
  • Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!
  • Eccl 1:16 : 16 I -- I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.
  • Eccl 1:18-2:1 : 18 for, in abundance of wisdom `is' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.' 1 I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.
  • Eccl 2:16 : 16 That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 2:9-14
    6 verses
    85%

    9And I became great, and increased above every one who had been before me in Jerusalem; also, my wisdom stood with me.

    10And all that mine eyes asked I kept not back from them; I withheld not my heart from any joy, for my heart rejoiced because of all my labour, and this hath been my portion, from all my labour,

    11and I have looked on all my works that my hands have done, and on the labour that I have laboured to do, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit, and there is no advantage under the sun!

    12And I turned to see wisdom, and madness, and folly, but what `is' the man who cometh after the king? that which `is' already -- they have done it!

    13And I saw that there is an advantage to wisdom above folly, like the advantage of the light above the darkness.

    14The wise! -- his eyes `are' in his head, and the fool in darkness is walking, and I also knew that one event happeneth with them all;

  • Eccl 2:16-22
    7 verses
    84%

    16That there is no remembrance to the wise -- with the fool -- to the age, for that which `is' already, `in' the days that are coming is all forgotten, and how dieth the wise? with the fool!

    17And 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.

    18And I have hated all my labour that I labour at under the sun, because I leave it to a man who is after me.

    19And who knoweth whether he is wise or foolish? yet he doth rule over all my labour that I have laboured at, and that I have done wisely under the sun! this also `is' vanity.

    20And I turned round to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labour that I laboured at under the sun.

    21For there is a man whose labour `is' in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity, and to a man who hath not laboured therein he giveth it -- his portion! Even this `is' vanity and a great evil.

    22For what hath been to a man by all his labour, and by the thought of his heart that he laboured at under the sun?

  • Eccl 1:16-18
    3 verses
    84%

    16I -- I spake with my heart, saying, `I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge.

    17And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this `is' vexation of spirit;

    18for, in abundance of wisdom `is' abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.'

  • Eccl 2:1-4
    4 verses
    83%

    1I said in my heart, `Pray, come, I try thee with mirth, and look thou on gladness;' and lo, even it `is' vanity.

    2Of laughter I said, `Foolish!' and of mirth, `What `is' this it is doing?'

    3I have sought in my heart to draw out with wine my appetite, (and my heart leading in wisdom), and to take hold on folly till that I see where `is' this -- the good to the sons of man of that which they do under the heavens, the number of the days of their lives.

    4I made great my works, I builded for me houses, I planted for me vineyards.

  • Eccl 1:13-14
    2 verses
    79%

    13And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It `is' a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it.

    14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole `is' vanity and vexation of spirit!

  • Eccl 6:8-9
    2 verses
    79%

    8For what advantage `is' to the wise above the fool? What to the poor who knoweth to walk before the living?

    9Better `is' the sight of the eyes than the going of the soul. This also `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 7:25
    79%

    25I have turned round, also my heart, to know and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and reason, and to know the wrong of folly, and of foolishness the madness.

  • Eccl 3:18-19
    2 verses
    79%

    18I said in my heart concerning the matter of the sons of man that God might cleanse them, so as to see that they themselves `are' beasts.

    19For an event `is to' the sons of man, and an event `is to' the beasts, even one event `is' to them; as the death of this, so `is' the death of that; and one spirit `is' to all, and the advantage of man above the beast is nothing, for the whole `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 12:8
    78%

    8Vanity of vanities, said the preacher, the whole `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 1:2-3
    2 verses
    78%

    2Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole `is' vanity.

    3What advantage `is' to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

  • Eccl 9:13
    77%

    13This also I have seen: wisdom under the sun, and it is great to me.

  • Eccl 8:14
    77%

    14There is a vanity that hath been done upon the earth, that there are righteous ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the wicked, and there are wicked ones unto whom it is coming according to the work of the righteous. I have said that this also `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 4:7
    77%

    7And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:

  • Eccl 6:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage `is' to man?

    12For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 10:3
    76%

    3And also, when he that is a fool Is walking in the way, his heart is lacking, And he hath said to every one, `He `is' a fool.'

  • Eccl 8:16-17
    2 verses
    75%

    16When I gave my heart to know wisdom and to see the business that hath been done on the earth, (for there is also a spectator in whose eyes sleep is not by day and by night),

    17then I considered all the work of God, that man is not able to find out the work that hath been done under the sun, because though man labour to seek, yet he doth not find; and even though the wise man speak of knowing he is not able to find.

  • Eccl 2:25
    75%

    25For who eateth and who hasteth out more than I?

  • Eccl 9:3
    75%

    3This `is' an evil among all that hath been done under the sun, that one event `is' to all, and also the heart of the sons of man is full of evil, and madness `is' in their heart during their life, and after it -- unto the dead.

  • Eccl 8:9-10
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    9All this I have seen so as to give my heart to every work that hath been done under the sun; a time that man hath ruled over man to his own evil.

    10And so I have seen the wicked buried, and they went in, even from the Holy Place they go, and they are forgotten in the city whether they had so done. This also `is' vanity.

  • Eccl 7:4
    75%

    4The heart of the wise `is' in a house of mourning, And the heart of fools in a house of mirth.

  • Eccl 7:23
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    23All this I have tried by wisdom; I have said, `I am wise,' and it `is' far from me.

  • Eccl 7:15
    75%

    15The whole I have considered in the days of my vanity. There is a righteous one perishing in his righteousness, and there is a wrong-doer prolonging `himself' in his wrong.

  • Eccl 9:1
    74%

    1But all this I have laid unto my heart, so as to clear up the whole of this, that the righteous and the wise, and their works, `are' in the hand of God, neither love nor hatred doth man know, the whole `is' before them.

  • Eccl 3:22
    74%

    22And I have seen that there is nothing better than that man rejoice in his works, for it `is' his portion; for who doth bring him in to look on that which is after him?

  • Eccl 4:4
    74%

    4And I have seen all the labour, and all the benefit of the work, because for it a man is the envy of his neighbour. Even this `is' vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 4:16
    73%

    16there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 7:6
    73%

    6For as the noise of thorns under the pot, So `is' the laughter of a fool, even this `is' vanity.