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Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:14 BSB

Ecclesiastes 1:14 has 8 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Ecclesiastes 2:11 (14 votes) and Ecclesiastes 2:17 (8 votes). 24 other verses point back to it. It links with 7 other books, from Genesis 3 to Matthew 11.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 1:14 point to?

Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Ecclesiastes 2:1114 votes

    Yet when I considered all the works that my hands had accomplished and what I had toiled to achieve, I found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind; there was nothing to be gained under the sun.

  2. Ecclesiastes 2:178 votes

    So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  3. Ecclesiastes 2:268 votes

    To the man who is pleasing in His sight, He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He assigns the task of gathering and accumulating that which he will hand over to one who pleases God. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  4. Ecclesiastes 6:96 votes

    Better what the eye can see than the wandering of desire. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  5. Psalm 39:5–63 votes

    You, indeed, have made my days as handbreadths, and my lifetime as nothing before You. Truly each man at his best exists as but a breath. Selah Surely every man goes about like a phantom; surely he bustles in vain; he heaps up riches not knowing who will haul them away.

  6. Ecclesiastes 1:17–183 votes

    So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind. For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.

  7. Ecclesiastes 4:43 votes

    I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

  8. 1 Kings 4:30–321 vote

    Solomon’s wisdom was greater than that of all the men of the East, greater than all the wisdom of Egypt. He was wiser than all men—wiser than Ethan the Ezrahite, and wiser than Heman, Calcol, and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread throughout the surrounding nations. …

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 1:14?

The 10 strongest of 24.