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Ecclesiastes 1:3-11

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3 What do people gain from all the hard work that they work so hard at under the sun?
3 What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?
4 A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains as it always has.
4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
5 The sun rises, the sun sets; it returns panting to the place where it dawns.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south, goes around to the north; around and around blows the wind; the wind returns to its rounds again.
6 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 to the sea, but the sea is never full; to the place where the rivers flow, there they continue to flow.
7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
8 All words are tiring; no one is able to speak. The eye isn't satisfied with seeing, neither is the ear filled up by hearing.
8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 Whatever has happened—that's what will happen again; whatever has occurred—that's what will occur again. There's nothing new under the sun.
9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
10 People may say about something: "Look at this! It's new!" But it was already around for ages before us.
10 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.
11 There's no remembrance of things in the past, nor of things to come in the future. Neither will there be any remembrance among those who come along in the future.
11 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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