Ecclesiastes 1: 2 - 11
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Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
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| 3
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What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
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| 4
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A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever.
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| 5
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The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
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| 6
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The wind blows to the south, and goes round to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.
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| 7
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All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.
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| 8
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All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
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| 9
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What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.
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| 10
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Is there a thing of which it is said, "See, this is new"? It has been already, in the ages before us.
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| 11
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There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.
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