Ecclesiastes 1:3-5
New American Bible (Revised Edition)
Vanity of Human Toil
3 What profit have we from all the toil
which we toil at under the sun?[a](A)
4 One generation departs and another generation comes,
but the world forever stays.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets;
then it presses on to the place where it rises.
Footnotes
- 1:3 Under the sun: used throughout this book to signify “on the earth.”
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