ECC 1:1 The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:
ECC 1:2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”
ECC 1:3 What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?
ECC 1:4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
ECC 1:5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
ECC 1:6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
ECC 1:7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
ECC 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.
ECC 1:9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
ECC 1:10 Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
ECC 1:11 There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.
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