¹¹Thus I considered all my activities which my hands had done and the labor which I had ¹exerted, and behold all was ²^avanity and striving after wind and there was ^bno profit under the sun.

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Footnotes

1Lit labored to do
2Or futility, and so throughout the ch

Cross references

a Eccl 1:14; 2:22, 23
b Eccl 1:3; 3:9; 5:16

In other versions

ESVEnglish Standard Version

Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, and behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

NIVNew International Version (2011)

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done

and what I had toiled to achieve,

everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind;

nothing was gained under the sun.

CSBChristian Standard Bible

When I considered all that I had accomplished and what I had labored to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

NLTNew Living Translation

But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.

LEBThe Lexham English Bible

Yet when I considered all the effort which I expended and the toil with which I toiled to do, then behold, “Everything is vanity and chasing wind! There is nothing profitable under the sun!”

KJV 1900King James Version

Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

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