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.


In Context

14 The 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;

15 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:

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!

17 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.

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

19 And 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.

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 American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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