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.