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         <div class="p"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.1.1"><span class="label">1</span><span class="content">The words of the Teacher,</span><span class="note f"><span class="label">#</span><span class=" body"><span class="fr">1:1 </span><span class="ft">Or </span><span class="fqa">the leader of the assembly</span><span class="ft">; also in verses 2 and 12</span></span></span><span class="content"> son of David, king in Jerusalem:</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v1" data-usfm="ECC.1.1"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.1.2"><span class="label">2</span><span class="content">&#8220;Meaningless! Meaningless!&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.1.2"><span class="content">says the Teacher.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.1.2"><span class="content">&#8220;Utterly meaningless!</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.1.2"><span class="content">Everything is meaningless.&#8221;</span></span></div><div class="b"></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v2" data-usfm="ECC.1.2"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.1.3"><span class="label">3</span><span class="content">What do people gain from all their labors</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.1.3"><span class="content">at which they toil under the sun?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v3" data-usfm="ECC.1.3"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.1.4"><span class="label">4</span><span class="content">Generations come and generations go,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.1.4"><span class="content">but the earth remains forever.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v4" data-usfm="ECC.1.4"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.1.5"><span class="label">5</span><span class="content">The sun rises and the sun sets,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.1.5"><span class="content">and hurries back to where it rises.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v5" data-usfm="ECC.1.5"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.1.6"><span class="label">6</span><span class="content">The wind blows to the south</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.1.6"><span class="content">and turns to the north;</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.1.6"><span class="content">round and round it goes,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.1.6"><span class="content">ever returning on its course.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v6" data-usfm="ECC.1.6"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.1.7"><span class="label">7</span><span class="content">All streams flow into the sea,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.1.7"><span class="content">yet the sea is never full.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.1.7"><span class="content">To the place the streams come from,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.1.7"><span class="content">there they return again.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v7" data-usfm="ECC.1.7"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.1.8"><span class="label">8</span><span class="content">All things are wearisome,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.1.8"><span class="content">more than one can say.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.1.8"><span class="content">The eye never has enough of seeing,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.1.8"><span class="content">nor the ear its fill of hearing.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v8" data-usfm="ECC.1.8"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.1.9"><span class="label">9</span><span class="content">What has been will be again,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.1.9"><span class="content">what has been done will be done again;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.1.9"><span class="content">there is nothing new under the sun.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v9" data-usfm="ECC.1.9"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.1.10"><span class="label">10</span><span class="content">Is there anything of which one can say,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.1.10"><span class="content">&#8220;Look! This is something new&#8221;?</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.1.10"><span class="content">It was here already, long ago;</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.1.10"><span class="content">it was here before our time.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v10" data-usfm="ECC.1.10"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.1.11"><span class="label">11</span><span class="content">No one remembers the former generations,</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.1.11"><span class="content">and even those yet to come</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.1.11"><span class="content">will not be remembered</span></span></div><div class="q2"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.1.11"><span class="content">by those who follow them.</span></span></div><div class="s1"><span class="heading">Wisdom Is Meaningless</span></div><div class="p"><span class="verse v11" data-usfm="ECC.1.11"><span class="content">  </span></span><span class="verse v12" data-usfm="ECC.1.12"><span class="label">12</span><span class="content">I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. </span></span><span class="verse v13" data-usfm="ECC.1.13"><span class="label">13</span><span class="content">I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind! </span></span><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.1.14"><span class="label">14</span><span class="content">I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.</span></span></div><div class="q1"><span class="verse v14" data-usfm="ECC.1.14"><span class="content">  </span></span></div>
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