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Ecclesiastes 1:2-4
Common English Bible
Ecclesiastes 1:2-4
Common English Bible
2 Perfectly pointless,[a] says the Teacher, perfectly pointless.
Everything is pointless.
Some things are inevitable
3 What do people gain from all the hard work
that they work so hard at under the sun?
4 A generation goes, and a generation comes,
but the earth remains as it always has.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 1:2 Or meaningless or vapor or puff of air (Heb hebel, which often occurs in the book)
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