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Ecclesiastes 1:1 (BSB)
These are the words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:

Ecclesiastes 1:2 (BSB)
“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”

Ecclesiastes 1:3 (BSB)
What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:4 (BSB)
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

Ecclesiastes 1:5 (BSB)
The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.

Ecclesiastes 1:6 (BSB)
The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.

Ecclesiastes 1:7 (BSB)
All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 (BSB)
All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 (BSB)
What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 1:10 (BSB)
Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.

Ecclesiastes 1:11 (BSB)
There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

Ecclesiastes 1:12 (BSB)
I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 1:13 (BSB)
And 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!

Ecclesiastes 1:14 (BSB)
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:15 (BSB)
What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.

Ecclesiastes 1:16 (BSB)
I 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.”

Ecclesiastes 1:17 (BSB)
So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 1:18 (BSB)
For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.

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