Ecclesiastes 1
1 The words of Ecclesiastes, the son of David, the king of Jerusalem.
[the] words of Teacher [the] son of David king in Jerusalem.
2 Ecclesiastes said: Vanity of vanities! Vanity of vanities, and all is vanity!
Futility of futilities he said Teacher futility of futilities everything [is] futility.
3 What more does a man have from all his labor, as he labors under the sun?
What? profit [belongs] to humankind in all toil his that he toils under the sun.
4 A generation passes away, and a generation arrives. But the earth stands forever.
A generation [is] going and a generation [is] coming and the earth for ever [is] continuing.
5 The sun rises and sets; it returns to its place, and from there, being born again,
And it rises the sun and it goes the sun and to place its [is] panting [is] rising it there.
6 it circles through the south, and arcs toward the north. The spirit continues on, illuminating everything in its circuit, and turning again in its cycle.
[it is] going To [the] south and [it is] circling to [the] north circling around - circling around [is] going the wind and on circuits its [is] returning the wind.
7 All rivers enter into the sea, and the sea does not overflow. To the place from which the rivers go out, they return, so that they may flow again.
All the rivers [are] going to the sea and the sea not it [is] full to [the] place where the rivers [are] going there they [are] returning to go.
8 Such things are difficult; man is not able to explain them with words. The eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor is the ear fulfilled by hearing.
All things [are] wearisome not he is able anyone to speak [them] not it is satisfied an eye by seeing and not it is filled an ear from hearing.
9 What is it that has existed? The same shall exist in the future. What is it that has been done? The same shall continue to be done.
Whatever it has been it [is] which will be and whatever (which has been done *L(abh)*) it [is] which will be done and there not [is] any new [thing] under the sun.
10 There is nothing new under the sun. Neither is anyone able to say: “Behold, this is new!” For it has already been brought forth in the ages that were before us.
[is] there? Anything that anyone will say see this [is] new it already it has been to ancient times which it was from to before us.
11 There is no remembrance of the former things. Indeed, neither shall there be any record of past things in the future, for those who will exist at the very end.
There not [is] remembrance of the former [things] and also of the subsequent [things] that they will be not it will be of them remembrance with who will be to the later [time].
12 I, Ecclesiastes, was king of Israel at Jerusalem.
I Teacher I was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I was determined in my mind to seek and to investigate wisely, concerning all that is done under the sun. God has given this very difficult task to the sons of men, so that they may be occupied by it.
And I gave heart my to study and to discover by wisdom on all that it has been done under the heavens it - [is] a task of evil [which] he has given God to [the] children of humankind to be busy with it.
14 I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: all is emptiness and an affliction of the spirit.
I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun and there! everything [is] futility and striving of wind.
15 The perverse are unwilling to be corrected, and the number of the foolish is boundless.
[something] bent Not it is able to become straight and something missing not it is able to be numbered.
16 I have spoken in my heart, saying: “Behold, I have achieved greatness, and I have surpassed all the wise who were before me in Jerusalem.” And my mind has contemplated many things wisely, and I have learned.
I have spoken I with heart my saying I here! I have made great and I have increased wisdom above every [one] who he was before me over Jerusalem and heart my it has seen much wisdom and knowledge.
17 And I have dedicated my heart, so that I may know prudence and doctrine, and also error and foolishness. Yet I recognize that, in these things also, there is hardship, and affliction of the spirit.
And I gave! heart my to know wisdom and to know madness and folly I knew that also this it [is] a striving of wind.
18 Because of this, with much wisdom there is also much anger. And whoever adds knowledge, also adds hardship.
For [is] in abundance of wisdom abundance of frustration so someone may increase knowledge he will increase pain.
