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Passage Lookup: Ecclesiastes 1:1-11
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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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