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Ecclesiastes

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Introduction to Ecclesiastes:
Author: Solomon (1:1, 12; 12:9; cf. 1 Kings 4:32).Time of Writing: About 977 B.C., after Solomon's fall (1 Kings 11:1-8).Place of Writing: Jerusalem (1:1, 12).

Subject of Ecclesiastes:
The Teachings of Solomon, Showing That the Human Life
in the Corrupted World Is a Vanity, a Chasing after the Wind

Ecclesiastes

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Verses (18)
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I. |The opening word — 1:1-11

Eccl.|1:1|-|The words of the |1a|Preacher, the |b|son of David, the king in Jerusalem.
Eccl.|1:2|-||1a|Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher;Vanity of vanities; |2|all is |b|vanity.Eccl.|1:3|-||a|What advantage does a man have in all his workWhich he does |b|under the sun?Eccl.|1:4|-|A generation goes and a generation comes,But the earth |a|stands forever.Eccl.|1:5|-|Also, the sun |a|rises, and the sun setsAnd hurries to its place where it rises.Eccl.|1:6|-|Going to the south, then turning to the north,Turning about continually, the wind goes on;And following its circuits, the wind returns.
Eccl.|1:7|-|All the rivers run to the sea,Yet the sea is not full;To the place where the rivers run,There they run again.Eccl.|1:8|-|All things are wearisome;No one is able to tell it;The |a|eye is not satisfied with seeing,Nor is the ear filled with hearing.Eccl.|1:9|-||a|What has been is what will be,And what has been done is what will be done,And there is nothing new |b|under the sun.
Eccl.|1:10|-|Is there anything of which one can say, See, this is new?Already it has been, in the ages that were before us.Eccl.|1:11|-|There is |a|no remembrance of those who were before;And also those who will come to be afterward, for them there will be noremembranceWith those who come to be after them.

II. |The writer's experiments — 1:12-6:12

A. |In wisdom and knowledge — 1:12-18
Eccl.|1:12|-|I, the |a|Preacher, have been king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Eccl.|1:13|-|And I set my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom |1|all that is done |a|under the heavens. It is grievous |b|travail that God has given to the children of men to travail in.
Eccl.|1:14|-|I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and indeed, all is vanity and a |1a|chasing after wind.
Eccl.|1:15|-|What is |a|crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
Eccl.|1:16|-|I spoke to my own heart, saying, Now I have magnified and increased my wisdom more than all who have been over Jerusalem |a|before me; and my heart has observed in abundance wisdom and knowledge.
Eccl.|1:17|-|And I set my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I perceived that this also is a chasing after wind.
Eccl.|1:18|-|For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

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