传道书 Ecclesiastes 1 >>

	1:1	The words of the preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem.
	1:2	Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all vanity.
	1:3	What profit hath a man of all his labor, which he taketh under the sun?
	1:4	generation passeth away, and generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
	1:5	The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
	1:6	The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about to the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits.
	1:7	All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea not full; to the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
	1:8	All things full of labor; man cannot utter the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
	1:9	The thing that hath been, it which shall be; and that which is done that which shall be done: and no new under the sun.
	1:10	Is there thing of which it may be said, See, this new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
	1:11	no remembrance of former ; neither shall there be remembrance of that are to come with that shall come after.
	1:12	I the preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
	1:13	And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that are done under heaven: this grievous labor hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised with it.
	1:14	I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all vanity and vexation of spirit.
	1:15	crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
	1:16	I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have come to great estate, and have gained more wisdom than all that have been before me in Jerusalem: and my heart had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.
	1:17	And I gave my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also is vexation of spirit.
	1:18	For in much wisdom much grief: and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow.