Passage Resources Hebrew/Greek Your Content
Previous Next
Add parallel Print Page Options
Close EXB

Ecclesiastes 2:17
Expanded Bible

Is There Real Happiness in Life?

17 So I hated life. ·It made me sad to think that everything [L For evil is the work that is done] ·here on earth [L under the sun; 1:3] is useless [1:2], like chasing the wind.

Read full chapter
Listen to Ecclesiastes 2:17
Close NIV

Ecclesiastes 2:17
New International Version

Toil Is Meaningless

17 So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(A)

Read full chapter
Next
Ecclesiastes 1
Ecclesiastes 3
Next
dropdown
Expanded Bible (EXB)

The Expanded Bible, Copyright © 2011 Thomas Nelson Inc. All rights reserved.

New International Version (NIV)

Holy Bible, New International Version®, NIV® Copyright ©1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.

NIV Reverse Interlinear Bible: English to Hebrew and English to Greek. Copyright © 2019 by Zondervan.

July Summer Surge

More on the NIV