Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 1

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for, in abundance of wisdom [is] abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.’

What [is] that which hath been? it [is] that which is, and what [is] that which hath been done? it [is] that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.

All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.

Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole [is] vanity. What advantage [is] to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit!

A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.

There is not a remembrance of former [generations]; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.

And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this [is] vexation of spirit