Ecclesiastes 1:2-4

The Voice

² Teacher: Life is fleeting, like a passing mist.
        It is like trying to catch hold of a breath;
    All vanishes like a vapor; everything is a great vanity.
³     What good does it do anyone to work so hard again and again,
        sun up to sundown? All his labor to gain but a little?
⁴     One generation comes, another goes;
        but the earth continues to remain.