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The words of Ecclesiastes[a], son of David, king of Jerusalem.

Vanity of vanities, said Ecclesiastes; vanity of vanities, and all things be vanity. (Emptiness and futility, said Ecclesiastes; emptiness and futility, yea, everything is empty and futile.)

What hath a man more[over] of all his travail, by which he travaileth under the sun? (What profiteth a person from all his labour, that he laboureth at under the sun?)

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:1 That is, (the words) of Solomon, for ‘Ecclesiastes’ is said, ‘a speaker to the people’.