vanity and vexation # 21_ECC_01_14 # I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. vanity and vexation # 21_ECC_02_11 # 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. vanity and vexation # 21_ECC_02_17 # 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. vanity and vexation # 21_ECC_02_26 # For [God] giveth to a man that [is] good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to [him that is] good before God. This also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. vanity and vexation # 21_ECC_04_04 # Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit. vanity and vexation # 21_ECC_04_16 # [There is] no end of all the people, [even] of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also [is] vanity and vexation of spirit. vanity and vexation # 21_ECC_06_09 # Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.