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These are the words of the Teacher, King David's son, who ruled in Jerusalem. |
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"Everything is meaningless," says the Teacher, "completely meaningless!" |
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What do people get for all their hard work under the sun? |
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Generations come and generations go, but the earth never changes. |
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The sun rises and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again. |
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The wind blows south, and then turns north. Around and around it goes, blowing in circles. |
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Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea. |
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Everything is wearisome beyond description. No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content. |
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History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new. |
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Sometimes people say, "Here is something new!" But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new. |
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We don't remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now. |
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I, the Teacher, was king of Israel, and I lived in Jerusalem. |
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I devoted myself to search for understanding and to explore by wisdom everything being done under heaven. I soon discovered that God has dealt a tragic existence to the human race. |
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I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless-- like chasing the wind. |
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What is wrong cannot be made right. What is missing cannot be recovered. |
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I said to myself, "Look, I am wiser than any of the kings who ruled in Jerusalem before me. I have greater wisdom and knowledge than any of them." |
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So I set out to learn everything from wisdom to madness and folly. But I learned firsthand that pursuing all this is like chasing the wind. |
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The greater my wisdom, the greater my grief. To increase knowledge only increases sorrow. |
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