17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is worked under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.


In Context

14 The wise man's eyes are in his head; but the fool walks in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happens to them all.

15 Then said I in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so it happens even to me; and why was I then more wise? Then I said in my heart, that this also is vanity.

16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dies the wise man? as the fool.

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

18 Yes, I hated all my labor which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be after me.

19 And who knows whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

2:17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

2:17So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

2:17And therefore I was weary of my life, when I saw that all things under the sun are evil, and all vanity and vexation of spirit.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

2:17So 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.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17And 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.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

2:17So 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.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17So 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

2:17And 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.