詩篇 90:9
- 10
All our days pass away under your wrath; we finish our years with a moan.
Our days may come to seventy years, or eighty, if our strength endures; yet the best of them are but trouble and sorrow, for they quickly pass, and we fly away.
我們經過的日子都在你震怒之下；我們度盡的年歲好像一聲歎息。
我們一生的年日是七十歲，若是強壯可到八十歲；但其中所矜誇的不過是勞苦愁煩，轉眼成空，我們便如飛而去。
傳道書 1:2
"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."
傳道者說：虛空的虛空，虛空的虛空，凡事都是虛空。
詩篇 39:6
"Surely everyone goes around like a mere phantom; in vain they rush about, heaping up wealth without knowing whose it will finally be.
世人行動實係幻影。他們忙亂，真是枉然；積蓄財寶，不知將來有誰收取。
傳道書 2:10
- 11
I denied myself nothing my eyes desired; I refused my heart no pleasure. My heart took delight in all my labor, and this was the reward for all my toil.
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.
凡我眼所求的，我沒有留下不給他的；我心所樂的，我沒有禁止不享受的；因我的心為我一切所勞碌的快樂，這就是我從勞碌中所得的分。
後來，我察看我手所經營的一切事和我勞碌所成的功。誰知都是虛空，都是捕風；在日光之下毫無益處。
約伯記 30:15
Terrors overwhelm me; my dignity is driven away as by the wind, my safety vanishes like a cloud.
驚恐臨到我，驅逐我的尊榮如風；我的福祿如雲過去。
傳道書 2:1
I said to myself, "Come now, I will test you with pleasure to find out what is good." But that also proved to be meaningless.
我心裡說：「來吧，我以喜樂試試你，你好享福！」誰知，這也是虛空。
傳道書 1:8
All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
萬事令人厭煩（或作：萬物滿有困乏），人不能說盡。眼看，看不飽；耳聽，聽不足。
