Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 1

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For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.

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

All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!” What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

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

There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.