Pengkhotbah 1:3

Futility Illustrated from Nature

1:3 What benefit¹ do people² get from all the effort

which³ they expend⁴ on earth?⁵

Pengkhotbah 1:9

1:9 What exists now⁶ is what will be,⁷

and what has been done is what will be done;

there is nothing truly new on earth.⁸

1:14 I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man⁹ on earth,¹⁰

and I concluded: Everything¹¹ he has accomplished¹² is futile¹³ – like chasing the wind!¹⁴