Category: Ecclesiastes

American Standard Version (ASV):
Seeing there are many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

King James Version (KJV):
Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?

American Standard Version (ASV):
yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?

King James Version (KJV):
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

American Standard Version (ASV):
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

King James Version (KJV):
All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

American Standard Version (ASV):
For what advantage hath the wise more than the fool? [or] what hath the poor man, that knoweth how to walk before the living?

King James Version (KJV):
For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

American Standard Version (ASV):
Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this also is vanity and a striving after wind.

King James Version (KJV):
Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

American Standard Version (ASV):
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

King James Version (KJV):
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

American Standard Version (ASV):
moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

King James Version (KJV):
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other.

American Standard Version (ASV):
a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

King James Version (KJV):
A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.

American Standard Version (ASV):
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

King James Version (KJV):
If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.

American Standard Version (ASV):
For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.

King James Version (KJV):
For he shall not much remember the days of his life; because God answereth [him] in the joy of his heart.