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Passage Lookup: Ecclesiastes 1
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Ecclesiastes 1:1
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Everything Is Meaningless
The words of the Teacher,[a](a) son of David, king in Jerusalem:(b)Footnotes:
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Ecclesiastes 1:2
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"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless."(c)
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Ecclesiastes 1:3
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What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?(d)
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Ecclesiastes 1:4
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Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.(e)
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Ecclesiastes 1:5
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The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.(f)
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Ecclesiastes 1:6
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The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
Ecclesiastes 1:7
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All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.(g)
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Ecclesiastes 1:8
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All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing,(h) nor the ear its fill of hearing.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9
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What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again;(i) there is nothing new under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 1:10
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Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
Ecclesiastes 1:11
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No one remembers the former generations,(j) and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.(k)
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Ecclesiastes 1:12
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I, the Teacher,(l) was king over Israel in Jerusalem.(m)
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Ecclesiastes 1:13
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I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens.(n) What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!(o)
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Ecclesiastes 1:14
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I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(p)
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Ecclesiastes 1:15
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What is crooked cannot be straightened;(q) what is lacking cannot be counted.
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Ecclesiastes 1:16
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I said to myself, "Look, I have increased in wisdom more than anyone who has ruled over Jerusalem before me;(r) I have experienced much of wisdom and knowledge."
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Ecclesiastes 1:17
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Then I applied myself to the understanding of wisdom,(s) and also of madness and folly,(t) but I learned that this, too, is a chasing after the wind.
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Ecclesiastes 1:18
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For with much wisdom comes much sorrow;(u) the more knowledge, the more grief.(v)
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