1THE WORDS of the Preacher, the son of David and king in Jerusalem.
2Vapor of vapors {and} futility of futilities, says the Preacher. Vapor of vapors {and} futility of futilities! All is vanity (emptiness, falsity, and vainglory).
3What profit does man have left from all his toil at which he toils under the sun? [Is life worth living?]
4One generation goes and another generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
5The sun also rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
6The wind goes to the south and circles about to the north; it circles {and} circles about continually, and on its circuit the wind returns again.
7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from which the rivers come, to there {and} from there they return again.
8All things are weary with toil {and} all words are feeble; man cannot utter it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9The thing that has been--it is what will be again, and that which has been done is that which will be done again; and there is nothing new under the sun.
10Is there a thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has already been, in the vast ages of time [recorded or unrecorded] which were before us.
11There is no remembrance of former happenings {or} men, neither will there be any remembrance of happenings of generations that are to come by those who are to come after them.
12I, the Preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13And I applied myself by heart {and} mind to seek and search out by [human] wisdom all human activity under heaven. It is a miserable business which God has given to the sons of man with which to busy themselves.
14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity, a striving after the wind {and} a feeding on wind.
15What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is defective {and} lacking cannot be counted.
16I entered into counsel with my own mind, saying, Behold, I have acquired great [human] wisdom, yes, more than all who have been over Jerusalem before me; and my mind has had great experience of [moral] wisdom and [scientific] knowledge.
17And I gave my mind to know [practical] wisdom and to discern [the character of] madness and folly [in which men seem to find satisfaction]; I perceived that this also is a searching after wind {and} a feeding on it.
18For in much [human] wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.
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