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Ecclesiastes 1:5-11
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Ecclesiastes 1:5-11
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The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
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The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
7
All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
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All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
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What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
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Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
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No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.
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1.
Psalms 19:5-6
2.
Job 36:28
3.
Proverbs 27:20
4.
Ecclesiastes 2:12
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Ecclesiastes 3:15
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Genesis 40:23
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Ecclesiastes 9:15
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Psalms 88:12
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Ecclesiastes 2:16
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Ecclesiastes 8:10
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Ecclesiastes 9:5
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