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Ecclesiastes 1:1-3
Wycliffe Bible
Ecclesiastes 1:1-3
Wycliffe Bible
1 The words of Ecclesiastes[a], son of David, king of Jerusalem.
2 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.)
3 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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- Ecclesiastes 1:1 That is, (the words) of Solomon, for ‘Ecclesiastes’ is said, ‘a speaker to the people’.
Ecclesiastes 1:1-3
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 1:1-3
New International Version
Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher,[a](A) son of David, king in Jerusalem:(B)
2 “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
Everything is meaningless.”(C)
3 What do people gain from all their labors
at which they toil under the sun?(D)
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 1:1 Or the leader of the assembly; also in verses 2 and 12
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2001 by Terence P. Noble
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