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1:1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, the king in Jerusalem. Compare
1:2Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; / Vanity of vanities; all is vanity. Compare
1:3What advantage does a man have in all his work / Which he does under the sun? Compare
1:4A generation goes and a generation comes, / But the earth stands forever. Compare
1:5Also, the sun rises, and the sun sets / And hurries to its place where it rises. Compare
1:6Going to the south, then turning to the north, / Turning about continually, the wind goes on; / And following its circuits, the wind returns. Compare
1:7All the rivers run to the sea, / Yet the sea is not full; / To the place where the rivers run, / There they run again. Compare
1:8All things are wearisome; / No one is able to tell it; / The eye is not satisfied with seeing, / Nor is the ear filled with hearing. Compare
1:9What has been is what will be, / And what has been done is what will be done, / And there is nothing new under the sun. Compare
1:10Is there anything of which one can say, See, this is new? / Already it has been, in the ages that were before us. Compare
1:11There is no remembrance of those who were before; / And also those who will come to be afterward, for them there will be no / remembrance / With those who come to be after them. Compare
1:12I, the Preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. Compare
1:13And I set my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. It is grievous travail that God has given to the children of men to travail in. Compare
1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and indeed, all is vanity and a chasing after wind. Compare
1:15What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted. Compare
1:16I spoke to my own heart, saying, Now I have magnified and increased my wisdom more than all who have been over Jerusalem before me; and my heart has observed in abundance wisdom and knowledge. Compare
1:17And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I perceived that this also is a chasing after wind. Compare
1:18For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow. Compare
2:1I said in my heart, Come now, I will test out pleasure; so taste enjoyment. But indeed, this also is vanity. Compare
2:2I said of laughter, Madness! and of pleasure, What does it accomplish? Compare
2:3I searched with my heart how to cheer my flesh with wine while my heart guided me with wisdom, and how to take hold of folly, until I could see what good there is for the children of men to do under the heavens the few days of their lives. Compare
2:4I enlarged my works: I built houses for myself; I planted vineyards for myself; Compare
2:5I made gardens and parks for myself, and planted in them trees of every kind of fruit. Compare
2:6I made water ponds for myself from which to water a forest of growing trees. Compare
2:7I bought male and female servants, and had servants born in my house; also I had great possessions of herds and flocks, more than all that had been before me in Jerusalem. Compare
2:8I gathered also silver and gold for myself and the treasures of kings and provinces; I got for myself male singers and female singers and the delights of the children of men, concubine after concubine. Compare
2:9And I became great and increased more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem; also my wisdom remained with me. Compare
2:10And whatever my eyes desired I did not keep from them; I did not keep my heart from any pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my labor, and this was my portion from all my labor. Compare
2:11Then I turned to all the works that my hands had done and the labor by which I had labored in doing them, and indeed, all was vanity and a chasing after wind; and there was no advantage under the sun. Compare
2:12And I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly, for what will the man do who comes after the king? Only that which has been done already. Compare
2:13And I saw that wisdom excels folly as light excels darkness. Compare
2:14The wise man's eyes are in his head, and the fool walks in darkness; yet I also perceived that one fate happens to them all. Compare
2:15And I said in my heart, As it happens to the fool, so also will it happen to me. Why then have I been so wise? And I said in my heart, This also is vanity. Compare
2:16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no remembrance forever, seeing that in the days to come all will be forgotten. And how the wise man dies just like the fool! Compare
2:17So I hated life, for the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me, because everything is vanity and a chasing after wind. Compare
2:18And I hated all my labor for which I had labored under the sun, because I will leave it to the man who comes after me. Compare
2:19And who knows whether he will be a wise man or a fool? Yet he will be master over all my labor for which I have labored and in which I exercised wisdom under the sun. This also is vanity. Compare
2:20Therefore I turned and gave my heart up to despair of all the labor for which I had labored under the sun; Compare
2:21For there is a man whose labor has been with wisdom and with knowledge and with skill, and to a man who has not labored on it he gives it as his portion. This also is vanity and a great evil. Compare
2:22For what will a man have with all his labor and with the striving of his heart by which he labors under the sun? Compare
2:23For all his days are sorrow, and his travail is vexation; even at night his heart does not rest. This also is vanity. Compare
2:24There is nothing better for man than to eat and to drink and to make his soul taste enjoyment in his labor. This also I saw, that it is from the hand of God. Compare
2:25For who can eat or who can enjoy without Him? Compare
2:26For to the man who is good in His sight He gives wisdom and knowledge and joy, but to the sinner He gives the travail of gathering and heaping up that it may be given to him who is good in God's sight. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind. Compare
3:1For everything there is a season, / And a time for every purpose under heaven: Compare
3:2A time to be born, and a time to die; / A time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted; Compare
3:3A time to kill, and a time to heal; / A time to tear down, and a time to build up; Compare
3:4A time to weep, and a time to laugh; / A time to mourn, and a time to dance; Compare
3:5A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together; / A time to embrace, and a time to refrain from embracing; Compare
3:6A time to seek, and a time to lose; / A time to keep, and a time to throw away; Compare
3:7A time to tear, and a time to sew; / A time to be silent, and a time to speak; Compare
3:8A time to love, and a time to hate; / A time for war, and a time for peace. Compare
3:9What profit does the worker have in all that he labors? Compare
3:10I have seen the travail that God has given the children of men to travail in. Compare
3:11He has made everything beautiful in its own time; also He has put eternity in their heart, yet so that man does not find out what God has done from the beginning to the end. Compare
3:12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice and do good in their lifetime; Compare
3:13Moreover, that every man should eat and drink and taste enjoyment in all his labor; it is the gift of God. Compare
3:14I know that whatever God does, it will be forever; nothing can be added to it, nor can anything be taken from it. God has so done, that all would fear Him. Compare
3:15That which is has already been, and that which will be has already been; and God seeks what has passed. Compare

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