Ecclesiastes 1:2-4

New Revised Standard Version, Anglicised Catholic Edition

²Vanity of vanities, says the Teacher,^[a]
    vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
³What do people gain from all the toil
    at which they toil under the sun?
⁴A generation goes, and a generation comes,
    but the earth remains for ever.

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Ecclesiastes 1:2 Heb Qoheleth, traditionally rendered Preacher

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