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“Utterly pointless,”[a]
        says the Teacher.
“Absolutely pointless;
    everything is pointless.”
What does a man gain
    from all of the work that he undertakes on earth?[b]

The Predictability of Life

A generation goes,
    a generation comes,
        but the earth remains forever.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:2 Or Utter vanity; and so throughout the book
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:3 Lit. under the sun; i.e. from an earthly perspective; and so throughout the book