1When the son of David was king in Jerusalem, he was known to be very wise, and he said:
2Nothing makes sense!
Everything is nonsense.
I have seen it all—
nothing makes sense!
3What is there to show
for all of our hard work
here on this earth?
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8All of life is far more boring
than words could ever say.
Our eyes and our ears
are never satisfied
with what we see and hear.
9Everything that happens
has happened before;
nothing is new,
nothing under the sun.
10Someone might say,
“Here is something new!”
But it happened before,
long before we were born.
11No one who lived in the past
is remembered anymore,
and everyone yet to be born
will be forgotten too.
It Is Senseless To Be Wise12I said these things when I lived in Jerusalem as king of Israel.
13With all my wisdom I tried to understand everything that happens here on earth. And God has made this so hard for us humans to do.
14I have seen it all, and everything is just as senseless as chasing the wind.
15If something is crooked,
it can't be made straight;
if something isn't there,
it can't be counted.
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18The more you know,
the more you hurt;
the more you understand,
the more you suffer.
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