Popular Bible Verses from Ecclesiastes 1

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For with much wisdom is much sorrow; as knowledge increases, grief increases.

What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing new under the sun.

All things are wearisome; man is unable to speak. The eye is not satisfied by seeing or the ear filled with hearing.

“Absolute futility,” says the Teacher. “Absolute futility. Everything is futile.” What does a man gain for all his efforts that he labors at under the sun?

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

There is no remembrance of those who came before; and of those who will come after there will also be no remembrance by those who follow them.

I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly; I learned that this too is a pursuit of the wind.