Ecclesiastes Chapter 1 - New International Version 1. The words
of the Teacher,  son of David, king in Jerusalem: 2.
"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly
meaningless! Everything is meaningless." 3. What does man gain
from all his labor at which he toils under the sun? 4.
Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains
forever. 5. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to
where it rises. 6. The wind blows to the south and turns to the
north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. 7.
All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the
place the streams come from, there they return again. 8. All
things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has
enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing. 9. What has
been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there
is nothing new under the sun. 10. Is there anything of which one
can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already,
long ago; it was here before our time.