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74 lines
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\v 1 These are the words and sayings of the descendant of King David, who is king in Jerusalem. The people call me 'The Teacher.'
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\v 2 The Teacher says, "Nothing is permanent.
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\q2 It is all like the morning mist or the wind;
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\q2 It goes and comes, but for what reason?
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\v 3 What do people gain from all the work that they do here on the earth?"
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\v 4 Each year old people die and babies are born,
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\q2 but the earth never changes.
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\v 5 Each morning the sun rises, and each evening it sets,
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\q2 and then it hurries around to where it started from.
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\v 6 The wind blows south,
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\q2 and then it turns around to start blowing to the north.
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\q1 It goes around and around in circles.
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\v 7 All the streams flow into the sea,
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\q2 but the sea is never full.
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\q1 The water returns under the earth and comes up again into the rivers;
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\q2 then it flows to the sea again.
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\v 8 Everything is so unsatisfactory
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\q2 that we do not even want to talk about it.
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\q1 We see the same things,
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\q2 and we become bored with them.
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\q1 We hear the same things,
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\q2 but we want to hear something more.
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\v 9 Everything continues to be the same as it has always been.
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\q2 Things that happen have happened previously, and they will happen again.
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\q2 What has been done before will be done again.
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\q1 There is nothing really new in this world.
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\v 10 Sometimes people say, "Look at this! This is something new!"
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\q2 But it has existed previously.
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\q1 It existed before we were born.
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\v 11 People do not remember the things that happened long ago,
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\q2 and in the future, people will not remember what we are doing now.
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\v 12 I, the Teacher, have been the king of Israel for many years, ruling in Jerusalem.
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\v 13 By using my wisdom, I concentrated on understanding everything that was being done on the earth. It is a task that wears me out, just like anyone else who tries it.
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\v 14 It seems that nothing that happens on the earth really enables us to do anything useful. It is like trying to control the wind.
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\v 15 Many things that are crooked cannot be caused to become straight.
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\q2 We cannot count things that we cannot see.
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\v 16 I said to myself, "I am wiser than any of those who ruled in Jerusalem before me. I am wiser and know more than any of them!"
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\v 17 So I determined to learn more about being wise, and also to learn about doing things that are very stupid and foolish. But I found out that trying to understand those things was also useless, like trying to control the wind.
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\v 18 Anyone who becomes very wise also becomes very frustrated. The more one knows, the sadder he becomes.
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