² “Meaningless! Meaningless!”
    says the Teacher.
“Utterly meaningless!
    Everything is meaningless.”^(A)

³ What do people gain from all their labors
    at which they toil under the sun?^(B)

⁷ All streams flow into the sea,
    yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
    there they return again.^(A)