Ecclesiastes 1:1-4 Young's Literal Translation Of The Holy Bible (YLT98)

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.

Ecclesiastes 1