1. The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, the king of Jerusalem.
2. Ecclesiastes said: Vanity of vanities! Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity!
3. What more does a man have from all his labor, as he labors under the sun?
4. A generation passes away, and a generation arrives. But the earth stands forever.
5. The sun rises and sets; it returns to its place, and from there, being born again,