Ecclesiastes 1:1-8

¹The words of Ecclesiastes, son of David, king of Jerusalem.

²Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes; vanity of vanities, and all things be vanity.

³What hath a man moreover of all his travail, by which he travaileth under the sun?

⁴A generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth standeth without end.

⁵The sun riseth up, and goeth down, and turneth again to his place; and there it riseth again,

⁶and compasseth by the south, and turneth again to the north. The spirit compassing all things goeth about, and turneth again into his circles.

⁷All floods enter into the sea, and the sea floweth not over the marks set of God; the floods turn again to the place from whence they come forth, that they flow out again.

⁸All things be hard; a man may not declare those things by word; the eye is not filled by sight, neither the ear is filled by hearing.