Ecclesiastes:1:1-11




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

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

bes@Ecclesiastes:1:3 @ What advantage is there to a man in all his labour that he takes under the sun?

bes@Ecclesiastes:1:4 @ A generation goes, and a generation comes: but the earth stands for ever.

bes@Ecclesiastes:1:5 @ And the sun arises, and the sun goes down and draws toward its place;

bes@Ecclesiastes:1:6 @ arising there it proceeds southward, and goes round toward the north. The wind goes round and round, and the wind returns to its circuits.

bes@Ecclesiastes:1:7 @ All the (note:)Gr. torrents(:note) rivers run into the sea; and yet the sea is not filled: to the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

bes@Ecclesiastes:1:8 @ All things are full of labour; a man will not be able to speak of them: neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.

bes@Ecclesiastes:1:9 @ What is that which has been? the very thing which shall be: and what is that which has been done? the very thing which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

bes@Ecclesiastes:1:10 @ Who is he that shall speak and say, Behold, this is new? it has already been in the ages that have passed before us.

bes@Ecclesiastes:1:11 @ There is no memorial to the first things; neither to the things that have been last shall their memorial be with them that shall at the last time.


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