Parallel Verses
Lexham Expanded Bible
I turned again and saw another vanity under the sun.
New American Standard Bible
Then I looked again at vanity under the sun.
King James Version
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Holman Bible
Again, I saw futility under the sun:
International Standard Version
Then I turned to re-examine something else that is pointless on earth:
American Standard Version
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Amplified
Then I looked again at vanity under the sun [in one of its peculiar forms].
Bible in Basic English
Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.
Darby Translation
And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Julia Smith Translation
And I turned back, and I shall see vanity under the sun.
King James 2000
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
Modern King James verseion
And I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
Moreover, I turned me, and behold yet another vanity under the Sun.
NET Bible
So I again considered another futile thing on earth:
New Heart English Bible
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
The Emphasized Bible
Then again, I, looked at a vain thing under the sun: -
Webster
Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.
World English Bible
Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.
Youngs Literal Translation
And I have turned, and I see a vain thing under the sun:
Interlinear
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References
Morish
Word Count of 19 Translations in Ecclesiastes 4:7
Verse Info
Context Readings
Wealth Without Someone With Which To Enjoy It Is Futile
6 Better [is] one handful with peace than two fists full with toil and chasing wind. 7 I turned again and saw another vanity under the sun. 8 Sometimes a man is all alone with no companion; he also has neither son nor brother. Yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eye is not satisfied with wealth. [He laments,] "For whom am I toiling and depriving {myself} of pleasure?" This also [is] vanity--it is an unhappy business!
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Cross References
Ecclesiastes 4:1
I looked again, and I saw all the oppression that occurs under the sun. {I saw the tears of the oppressed-- no one comforts them! Those who oppress them are powerful-- no one can comfort them}!
Psalm 78:33
And he consumed their days with futility their years with terror.
Zechariah 1:6
However, did not my words and my regulations which I commanded my servants the prophets overtake your ancestors? And they repented and said, 'Yahweh of hosts planned to do with us according to our ways, and according to our deeds so he has dealt with us.'" '"