Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 1

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For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

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.

All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever.

There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to happen among those who come after.

And I applied my mind to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.