The Voice, Compass Bible, eBook by Ecclesia Bible Society

Author:Ecclesia Bible Society [HarperCollins Christian Publishing]
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
Tags: Bible
ISBN: 9781401679125
Publisher: Thomas Nelson
Published: 2013-11-14T05:00:00+00:00

Ecclesiastes 1

1These are the words of the teacher,* the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

Teacher: 2Life is fleeting, like a passing mist.

It is like trying to catch hold of a breath;

All vanishes like a vapor; everything is a great vanity.

3What good does it do anyone to work so hard again and again,

sun up to sundown? All his labor to gain but a little?

4One generation comes, another goes;

but the earth continues to remain.

5The sun rises and the sun sets,

laboring to come up quickly to its place again and again.

6The wind in its travels blows toward the south,

then swings back around to the north.

Back and forth,

returning in its circuit again and again.

7All rivers flow to the sea,

but the sea is never full.

To the place where the rivers flow,

there the water returns to flow once again.

8Words, words, words! So many words! They are wearisome things;

and yet people cannot refrain from speaking.

No eye has ever surveyed the world and said, “I have seen enough”;

no ear has ever listened to creation and said, “I have heard enough.”

9What has been, that will be;

what has been done, that will be done.

Nothing is new under the sun;

the future only repeats the past.

10One person may say of some idea,

“Pay attention to this; it’s original!”

But that same idea has already been expressed;

it’s been with us through the ages.

11We do not remember those people and events of long ago,

as future generations will not remember what is yet to come.

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