我见日光之下所做的一切事，都是虚空，都是捕风。

我见日光之下所发生的一切事，看哪，全是虚空，全是捕风。

我见日光之下所发生的一切事，看哪，全是虚空，全是捕风。

我观察一切日光之下所做的事，看啊，都是虚空，好像捕风。

我看过日光之下所发生的一切事，不料，一切都是虚空，都是捕风。

我见过在日光之下所做的一切事，看哪，全是虚空，全是捕风！

我見日光之下所做的一切事，都是虛空，都是捕風。

我見日光之下所發生的一切事，看哪，全是虛空，全是捕風。

我見日光之下所發生的一切事，看哪，全是虛空，全是捕風。

我觀察一切日光之下所做的事，看啊，都是虛空，好像捕風。

我看過日光之下所發生的一切事，不料，一切都是虛空，都是捕風。

我見過日光之下所發生過的一切事；啊，都是虛空！都是捕風！

我見過在日光之下所做的一切事，看哪，全是虛空，全是捕風！

我見日下所為之事、悉屬虛空、莫非捕風、

天下之事、我已灼見、無非捕風捉影。

我觀日下所作之事、皆屬於虛、皆如捕風、

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

I’ve seen what is done on this earth. All of it is meaningless. It’s like chasing the wind.

I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless— like chasing the wind.

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

I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is futility and striving after wind.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and grasping for the wind.

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all[ is] vanity and vexation of spirit.

I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile– like chasing the wind!

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Yet when I surveyed all that my hands had done and what I had toiled to achieve, everything was meaningless, a chasing after the wind; nothing was gained under the sun. (niv)

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. (niv)

To the person who pleases him, God gives wisdom, knowledge and happiness, but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and storing up wealth to hand it over to the one who pleases God. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. (niv)

Better what the eye sees than the roving of the appetite. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. (niv)

And I saw that all toil and all achievement spring from one person’s envy of another. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind. (niv)

You have made my days a mere handbreadth; the span of my years is as nothing before you. Everyone is but a breath, even those who seem secure.“ Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be. (niv)

Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. (niv)

Solomon’s wisdom was greater than the wisdom of all the people of the East, and greater than all the wisdom of Egypt.He was wiser than anyone else, including Ethan the Ezrahite— wiser than Heman, Kalkol and Darda, the sons of Mahol. And his fame spread to all the surrounding nations.He spoke three thousand proverbs and his songs numbered a thousand and five. (niv)