Ecclesiastes

Reading Ecclesiastes in the Webster's Bible, public-domain text from 1833.

Opening Verses

1 The words of the preacher, the son of David, king of Jerusalem.

2 Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher, vanity of vanities; all [is] vanity.

3 What profit hath a man of all his labor, which he taketh under the sun?

4 [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

5 The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

6 The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about to the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to its circuits.

7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; to the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

8 All things [are] full of labor; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun.

10 Is there [any] thing of which it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

All 12 chapters

• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12

Ecclesiastes in other translations

• KJV Ecclesiastes
• ASV Ecclesiastes
• Darby Ecclesiastes
• DRC Ecclesiastes
• WEB Ecclesiastes
• YLT Ecclesiastes

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