Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 1

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For in an abundance of wisdom is an abundance of frustration, and the one who increases in knowledge also increases in sorrow.

What has been is the same as what will be, and what has been done is the same as what will be done. There is nothing really new under the sun.

All matters are wearisome. A person is not able to speak to them. The eye is not satisfied with what it sees, and the ear is not content with what it hears.

“Vanity of vanities,” says Qoheleth, “vanity of vanities! All is vanity.” What benefit is there to a person in all his labors at which he toils under the sun?

I have seen everything that is done under the sun; and behold, everything is vanity and like chasing the wind.

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

There is not a remembrance of the former things, and, moreover, there will not be a remembrance of the things yet to come, even by those who are yet to come.

And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know the folly of ideas, and to know foolish behavior. I know that this as well is like chasing the wind.