Ecclesiastes Capítulo 1

1 : 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

1 : 2 Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

1 : 3 What profit has man from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

1 : 4 One generation goes, and another generation comes, but the earth abides forever.

1 : 5 The sun also arises, and the sun goes down and hastens to its place where it arises.

1 : 6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually in its course, and the wind returns again to its circuits.

1 : 7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from where the rivers come, there they go again.

1 : 8 All things are full of weariness, man cannot utter it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

1 : 9 That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done. And there is no new thing under the sun.

1 : 10 Is there a thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

1 : 11 There is no remembrance of the former things, nor shall there be any remembrance of the latter that are to come, among those who shall come after.

1 : 12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

1 : 13 And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven. It is a great tribulation that God has given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.

1 : 14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

1 : 15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight, and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

1 : 16 I communed with my own heart, saying, Lo, I have gotten for me great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yea, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge.

1 : 17 And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a striving after wind.

1 : 18 For in much wisdom is much grief, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.