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The Problem

“Nothing but vapor,”[a] Ecclesiastes said. “Totally vapor. Everything is just vapor that vanishes.”

What does anyone gain by all his hard work, at which he works hard under the sun? A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth keeps standing forever.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:2 Other possible translations are mist, breath, futility, or emptiness. Since vapor does not last, it serves as an appropriate symbol for everything that is transient, futile, or useless.