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Read the Bible

Darby's French Translation

Écclésiaste 4:7

Et je me tournai, et je vis la vanité sous le soleil:

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Avarice;   Miser;   The Topic Concordance - Company;   Vanity;  

Dictionaries:

- Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Sirach;   Morrish Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, Book of;  

Encyclopedias:

- The Jewish Encyclopedia - Death, Angel of;   Jephthah;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for September 16;  

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Puis je me suis mis regarder une [autre] vanit sous le soleil;
La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Je me suis mis regarder une autre vanit sous le soleil.
Louis Segond (1910)
J'ai considr une autre vanit sous le soleil.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Ecclesiastes 4:1, Psalms 78:33, Zechariah 1:6

Reciprocal: Psalms 39:6 - surely Ecclesiastes 1:3 - under Ecclesiastes 8:9 - this Ecclesiastes 10:5 - an evil

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun. Another vanity besides what he had taken notice of, and is as follows. Aben Ezra's note is,

"I turned from considering the words of this fool, and I saw another fool, the reverse of the former.''

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

The spectacle of a prosperous man whose condition is rendered vain by his brotherless, childless isolation.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

A second - Any one associated or connected with him.

Ecclesiastes 4:9-12

Compare a saying from the Talmud: “A man without companions is like the left hand without the right.”


 
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