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Ecclesiastes 1:5
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Ecclesiastes 1:5
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The sun still rises, and it still goes down, going wearily back to where it must start all over again.
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You spend your life working, laboring, and what do you have to show for it?
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Generations come and generations go, but the world stays just the same.
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The sun still rises, and it still goes down, going wearily back to where it must start all over again.
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The wind blows south, the wind blows north - round and round and back again.
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Every river flows into the sea, but the sea is not yet full. The water returns to where the rivers began, and starts all over again.
Scripture taken from the Good News Translation - Second Edition, Copyright 1992 by American Bible Society. Used by Permission.