Ecclesiastes 1
1:1The sayings of an ecclesiastic, son of David, king of Israel in Jerusalem.
1:2Folly of follies, said the ecclesiastic, folly of follies; all things are folly.
1:3What is abundance to man in all his trouble in which he is troubled under the sun?
1:4A generation goes, and a generation comes, and the earth is established into the eon.
1:5And the sun rises, and the sun goes down, and it draws unto its place.
1:6In its rising it goes forth to the south, and it circles to the north; the wind circles going circling, and at its circuits the wind returns.
1:7All the rushing streams go into the sea, and the sea is not filled up. To the place where the rushing streams went, there they shall return to go again.
1:8All wearied words a man shall not be able to speak; and the eye shall not be filled up to see, and the ear shall not be filled of hearing.
1:9What is the thing taking place? the same thing as shall be taking place. And what is the thing being done? the same thing that shall be done; and there is not anything newly made under the sun.
1:10Who shall speak and shall say? Behold this is new! Already it has happened in the eons to the ones having taken place from before us.
1:11There is no remembrance to the first things; and indeed to the last things being, there will not be a remembrance of them, with the ones being born at the latter end.
1:12I an ecclesiastic became king over Israel in Jerusalem.
1:13And I gave my heart to inquire and to survey by wisdom concerning all things happening under the heaven. For God gave a wicked distraction to the sons of men to be distracting to him.
1:14I beheld all the actions, the ones being done under the sun; and behold, all was folly and a resolve of spirit.
1:15The thing being perverted is not able to be embellished. And deficiency is not able to be counted.
1:16I spoke in my heart to say, Behold, I was magnified, and was added wisdom over all who came before me in Jerusalem. And I give my heart to know wisdom and knowledge.
1:17And my heart beheld much wisdom and knowledge, parables, and higher knowledge. For I knew even indeed this is resolve of spirit.
1:18For in abundance of wisdom is abundance of knowledge; and the one adding knowledge shall add pain.