1 The words of the congregator, the son of David the king in Jerusalem. 2 "The greatest vanity!" the congregator has said, "the greatest vanity! Everything is vanity!" 3 What profit does a man have in all his hard work at which he works hard under the sun? 4 A generation is going, and a generation is coming; but the earth is standing even to time indefinite. 5 And the sun also has flashed forth, and the sun has set, and it is coming panting to its place where it is going to flash forth.
6 The wind is going to the south, and it is circling around to the north. Round and round it is continually circling, and right back to its circlings th