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| 1[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 1The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: |
| 2[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 2"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." |
| 3[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 3What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil 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, and hurries back to where it rises. |
| 6[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 6The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. |
| 7[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 7All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again. |
| 8[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 8All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. |
| 9[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 9What has been will be again, 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 anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time. |
| 11[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 11No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them. |
| 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] | 13I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! |
| 14[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind. |
| 15[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 15What is crooked cannot be straightened; what is lacking cannot be counted. |
| 16[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 16I said to myself, "Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me; I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge." |
| 17[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 17Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom, and also of madness and folly, but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind. |
| 18[an error occurred while processing this directive] | 18For with much wisdom comes much sorrow; the more knowledge, the more grief. |
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