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All Toil is Profitless and Repetitious

What does a person gain in all his toil
    with which he toils under the sun?
A generation goes, and a generation comes,
    but the earth stands forever.
The sun rises, and the sun goes down;
    to its place it hurries,[a] and there it rises again.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:5 The MT reads “it gasps for breath,” which is supported by LXX “to draw breath”; the BHS editors suggest “it returns again”