Category: Ecclesiastes

American Standard Version (ASV):
For who can eat, or who can have enjoyment, more than I?

King James Version (KJV):
For who can eat, or who else can hasten [hereunto], more than I?

American Standard Version (ASV):
For what hath a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, wherein he laboreth under the sun?

King James Version (KJV):
For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

American Standard Version (ASV):
For all his days are [but] sorrows, and his travail is grief; yea, even in the night his heart taketh no rest. This also is vanity.

King James Version (KJV):
For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And I hated all my labor wherein I labored under the sun, seeing that I must leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

King James Version (KJV):
Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

American Standard Version (ASV):
And who knoweth whether he will be a wise man or a fool? yet will he have rule over all my labor wherein I have labored, and wherein I have showed myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

King James Version (KJV):
And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.

American Standard Version (ASV):
Therefore I turned about to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor wherein I had labored under the sun.

King James Version (KJV):
Therefore I went about to cause my heart to despair of all the labour which I took under the sun.

American Standard Version (ASV):
For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, and with knowledge, and with skilfulness; yet to a man that hath not labored therein shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil.

King James Version (KJV):
For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.

American Standard Version (ASV):
For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance for ever; seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. And how doth the wise man die even as the fool!

King James Version (KJV):
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 dieth the wise [man]? as the fool.

American Standard Version (ASV):
So 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.

King James Version (KJV):
Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun [is] grievous unto me: for all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

American Standard Version (ASV):
The wise man’s eyes are in his head, and the fool walketh in darkness: and yet I perceived that one event happeneth to them all.

King James Version (KJV):
The wise man’s eyes [are] in his head; but the fool walketh in darkness: and I myself perceived also that one event happeneth to them all.