| Ostervald (French) (OST) | New International Version (NIV) |
| 2 Vanité des vanités, dit l'Ecclésiaste; vanité des vanités, tout est vanité. | 2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." |
| 3 Quel avantage a l'homme de tout le travail auquel il se livre sous le soleil? | 3 What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? |
| 4 Une génération passe, et une autre vient; mais la terre subsiste toujours. | 4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. |
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