(A)What (B)does man gain by all the toil
    at which he toils under the sun?
A generation goes, and a generation comes,
    but (C)the earth remains forever.
(D)The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
    and hastens[a] to the place where it rises.
(E)The wind blows to the south
    and goes around to the north;
around and around goes the wind,
    and on its circuits the wind returns.
All (F)streams run to the sea,
    but the sea is not full;
to the place where the streams flow,
    there they flow again.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:5 Or and returns panting

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