Ecclesiastes Chapter 1
1:1 | The words of the Preacher, the son of David, ![]() ![]() |
1:2 | Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity. |
1:3 | What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the ![]() |
1:4 | [One] ![]() ![]() ![]() |
1:5 | The ![]() ![]() |
1:6 | The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. |
1:7 | All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. |
1:8 | All things [are] full of labour; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. |
1:9 | The thing that hath 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 ![]() |
1:10 | Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, ![]() ![]() |
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. |
1:12 | I the Preacher was ![]() ![]() ![]() |
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 hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith. |
1:14 | I have seen all the works that are done under the ![]() ![]() |
1:15 | [That which is] crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered. |
1:16 | I communed with mine own heart, saying, Lo, I am come to great estate, and have gotten more wisdom than all [they] that have been before me in ![]() ![]() |
1:17 | And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of ![]() |
1:18 | For in much wisdom [is] much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow. |