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Douay-Rheims
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And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.
King James
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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.
Louis Second
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Puis, j'ai considéré tous les ouvrages que mes mains avaient faits, et la peine que j'avais prise à les exécuter; et voici, tout est vanité et poursuite du vent, et il n'y a aucun avantage à tirer de ce qu'on fait sous le soleil
Martin Luther
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Da ich aber ansah alle meine Werke, die meine Hand getan hatte, und Mühe, die ich gehabt hatte, siehe, da war es alles eitel und Jammer und nichts mehr unter der Sonne.
Vulgate
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cumque me convertissem ad universa opera quae fecerant manus meae et ad labores in quibus frustra sudaveram vidi in omnibus vanitatem et adflictionem animi et nihil permanere sub sole

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary


me : (abl.) me /you'll do fine with ME, baby.
me : (acc.) me /that old black magic has ME in its spell.
universa : entire, complete.
opera : work, pains, labor. * operam do to lavish care upon.
quae : (neut. plur. nom.) WHAT cannot be avoided must be endured.
quae : (neut. pl. acc.) those things WHICH we must have.
quae : (fem. pl. nom.) Let THOSE (women) WHO have ears to hear .
in : (+ acc.) into, toward, against.
in : (+ abl.) in.
quibus : (neut. pl. abl.) the arms WITH WHICH he won Rome.
quibus : (neut. pl. dat.) the crimes FOR WHICH he was executed.
quibus : (masc. pl. dat.) the monastery IN WHICH he was intered.
quibus : (masc. pl. abl.) his sons, BY WHOM he was attacked when old.
quibus : (fem. pl. abl.) the beards, BY WHICH the pirates were known.
quibus : (fem. pl. dat.) the good fortune, TO WHICH he owed his crown.
frustra : in vain, mistakenly, wantonly, without reason.
animi : at heart.
nihil : (undeclinable) nothing.
sub : (+ acc. or dat.) under, up under, close to, beneath, below.