A moment in scripture
Ecclesiastes 1:3
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What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
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The surrounding passage
- Ecclesiastes 1:1
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
- Ecclesiastes 1:2
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
- Ecclesiastes 1:5
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.