Ecclesiastes or Preacher 01
The Vanity of All Earthly Things
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 Vanity of vanities! says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! It is all vanity.
3 What profit has man from all his labor which he does under the sun?
4 One generation passes away, and another generation comes, but the earth abides forever.
5 The sun rises, and the sun sets, and returns to its place where it arose.
6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north; the wind whirls around and around.
7 All the rivers run into the sea, and yet the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they return.
8 All these things are so weary that no one can declare them: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear with hearing.
9 What has been is what will be, and what has been done will be done again; so that there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say, 'See, this is new'? It was in the ages that were before us.
11 There is no longer any remembrance of the things that were before, and of the things that will be, there will be no remembrance in those who come after.
12 I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 I applied my heart to search and to search by wisdom all that is done under heaven: this tiresome occupation has God given to the sons of men to be exercised with.
14 I have looked at all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight; that which is lacking cannot be counted.
16 I spoke in my heart, saying, "Behold, I have become great, and have surpassed in wisdom all who were before me in Jerusalem; indeed, my heart has abundantly seen wisdom and knowledge."
17 I applied my heart to know wisdom and to understand madness and folly, and I realized that this also is vexation of spirit.
18 For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases in knowledge increases in travail.
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