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akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:1 @ The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:2 @ Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What profit has a man of all his labor which he takes under the sun?

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:4 @ One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth stays for ever.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:5 @ The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to his place where he arose.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:6 @ The wind goes toward the south, and turns about to the north; it whirls about continually, and the wind returns again according to his circuits.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:7 @ All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, thither they return again.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:8 @ All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:9 @ The thing that has 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.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @ Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time, which was before us.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:11 @ 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.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:12 @ I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:13 @ And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven: this sore travail has God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:14 @ I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:15 @ That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:16 @ I communed with my own heart, saying, See, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all they that have been before me in Jerusalem: yes, my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:17 @ And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.

akjv@Ecclesiastes:1:18 @ For in much wisdom is much grief: and he that increases knowledge increases sorrow.

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