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Everything Is Meaningless
The Teacher Speaks: The Futility of Wisdom -
|Eclesiastes 1:1| These are the words of the Teacher, King David’s son, who ruled in Jerusalem.
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|Eclesiastes 1:2| “Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher, “completely meaningless!”
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|Eclesiastes 1:3| What do people get for all their hard work under the sun?
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|Eclesiastes 1:4| Generations come and generations go, but the earth never changes.
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|Eclesiastes 1:5| The sun rises and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again.
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|Eclesiastes 1:6| The wind blows south, and then turns north. Around and around it goes, blowing in circles.
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|Eclesiastes 1:7| Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea.
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|Eclesiastes 1:8| Everything is wearisome beyond description. No matter how much we see, we are never satisfied. No matter how much we hear, we are not content.
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|Eclesiastes 1:9| History merely repeats itself. It has all been done before. Nothing under the sun is truly new.
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|Eclesiastes 1:10| Sometimes people say, “Here is something new!” But actually it is old; nothing is ever truly new.
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