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¹ The words of Kohelet the son of David, king in Yerushalayim:

² Pointless! Pointless! — says Kohelet — Utterly meaningless! Nothing matters!

³ What does a person gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?

⁴ Generations come, generations go, but the earth remains forever.

⁵ The sun rises, the sun sets; then it speeds to its place and rises there.

⁶ The wind blows south, then it turns north; the wind blows all around and keeps returning to its rounds.

⁷ All the rivers flow to the sea, yet the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers flow, there they keep on flowing.

⁸ Everything is wearisome, more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, the ear not filled up with hearing.

⁹ What has been is what will be, what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun.

¹⁰ Is there something of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It existed already in the ages before us.

¹¹ No one remembers the people of long ago; and those to come will not be remembered by those who come after them.

¹² I, Kohelet, have been king over Isra’el in Yerushalayim.

¹³ I wisely applied myself to seek out and investigate everything done under heaven. What a bothersome task God has given humanity to keep us occupied!

¹⁴ I have seen all the activities that are done under the sun, and it’s all pointless, feeding on wind.

¹⁵ What is crooked can’t be straightened; what is not there can’t be counted.

¹⁶ I said to myself, “Look, I have acquired much wisdom, more than anyone ruling Yerushalayim before me.” Yes, I experienced a great deal of wisdom and knowledge;

¹⁷ yet when I applied myself to understanding wisdom and knowledge, as well as stupidity and folly, I came to see that this too was merely feeding on wind.

¹⁸ For in much wisdom is much grief; the more knowledge, the more suffering.