Canticum Canticorum 4:7

Jerome's Latin Vulgate

Considerans, reperi et aliam vanitatem sub sole.

Parallel Translations

Clementine Latin Vulgate (1592)
Principium sapientiæ, posside sapientiam ; et in omni possessione tua acquire prudentiam.

Nova Vulgata (1979)
Iterum repperi et aliam vanitatem sub sole:

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.”