Ecclesiastes 1:3-5

Revised Standard Version Catholic Edition

³What does man gain by all the toil
    at which he toils under the sun?
⁴A generation goes, and a generation comes,
    but the earth remains for ever.
⁵The sun rises and the sun goes down,
    and hastens to the place where it rises.

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