Ecc 1:14, 3:10, 4:7-8, 7:25 | ESV | STEP | I have seen everything that is done under the sun , and behold , all is vanity and a striving after wind .

a ver. 2; ch. 2:11, 17, 26; 4:4; 6:9

dSee ch. 1:13

eSee Gen. 3:17-19

f[See ver. 1 above]

g ch. 1:8; [Prov. 27:20; 1 John 2:16]

h ch. 2:18; Ps. 39:6

iSee ch. 1:13

jSee ch. 1:17

Ecclesiastes 1:14

14 I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is ^avanity ^{▼▼The Hebrew term hebel can refer to a “vapor” or “mere breath” (see note on 1:2)} and a striving after wind. ^{▼▼Or a feeding on wind; compare Hosea 12:1 (also in Ecclesiastes 1:17; 2:11, 17, 26; 4:4, 6, 16; 6:9)}

Ecclesiastes 3:10

10 I have seen ^dthe business that ^eGod has given to the children of man to be busy with.

Ecclesiastes 4:7-8

7 ^fAgain, I saw vanity under the sun: 8 one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his ^geyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, ^h“For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy ⁱbusiness.

Ecclesiastes 7:25

25 ^jI turned my heart to know and to search out and to seek wisdom and the scheme of things, and to know the wickedness of folly and the foolishness that is madness.