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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1These are the words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!” |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun? |
| 4[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 4Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. |
| 5[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun. |
| 10[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 10Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after. |
| 12[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 12I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. |
| 13[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 13And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.” |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases. |
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