Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
Everything Is Futile

1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

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2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.

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3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

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4 [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

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5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

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6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

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7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

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8 All things [are] full of labour; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

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9 The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun.

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10 Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

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11 [There is] no remembrance of former [things]; neither shall there be [any] remembrance of [things] that are to come with [those] that shall come after.

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