Young's Literal Translation

Proverbs 31

Ecclesiastes or, The Preacher

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Chapter 1

1

 Words of a preacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: 

2

 Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole [is] vanity. 

3

 What advantage [is] to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun? 

4

 A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing. 

5

 Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there. 

6

 Going unto the south, and turning round unto the north, turning round, turning round, the wind is going, and by its circuits the wind hath returned. 

7

 All the streams are going unto the sea, and the sea is not full; unto a place whither the streams are going, thither they are turning back to go. 

8

 All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing. 

9

 What [is] that which hath been? it [is] that which is, and what [is] that which hath been done? it [is] that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun. 

10

 There is a thing of which [one] saith: 'See this, it [is] new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us! 

11

 There is not a remembrance of former [generations]; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last. 

12

 I, a preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. 

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 And I have given my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that hath been done under the heavens. It [is] a sad travail God hath given to the sons of man to be humbled by it. 

14

 I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole [is] vanity and vexation of spirit! 

15

 A crooked thing [one] is not able to make straight, and a lacking thing is not able to be numbered. 

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 I -- I spake with my heart, saying, 'I, lo, I have magnified and added wisdom above every one who hath been before me at Jerusalem, and my heart hath seen abundantly wisdom and knowledge. 

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 And I give my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I have known that even this [is] vexation of spirit; 

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 for, in abundance of wisdom [is] abundance of sadness, and he who addeth knowledge addeth pain.' 

Ecclesiastes 2

 

 

 

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