Ecclesiastes, or The Preacher

2 All things in this world are full of vanity, and of none endurance. 13 All man’s wisdom is but folly and grief.

The words of the [a]Preacher, the son of David king in Jerusalem.

[b]Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher: vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

What remaineth unto man in all his [c]travail, which he suffereth under the sun?

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:1 Solomon is here called a preacher, or one that assembleth the people, because he teacheth the true knowledge of God, and how men ought to pass their life in this transitory world.
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:2 He condemneth the opinions of all men that set felicity in any thing, but in God alone, seeing that in this world all things are as vanity and nothing.
  3. Ecclesiastes 1:3 Solomon doth not condemn man’s labor or diligence, but showeth that there is no full contentation in any thing under the heaven, nor in any creature, forasmuch as all things are transitory.

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