Dead sea Scrolls .. ECCLESIASTES Chapter 1 and 2.

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ECCLESIASTES

 Dead sea Scrolls .. ECCLESIASTES Chapter 1 and 2. 

The words of the Preacher, the son of David. king in Jerusalem

alle Vanity

Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher vanity of vanities! All is vanity.

What does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?

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

The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises

The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; around and around goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.

All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full;

to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.

All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it.

the eye is not satisfied with seeing.

nor the ear filled with hearing

What has been is what will be. and what has been done is what will be done,

and there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there a thing of which it is said,

"See, this is new"?

It has been already

in the ages before us.

There is no remembrance of former things,

nor will there be any remembrance

of later things yet to be among those who come after

The Vanity of Wisdom

1 the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind

What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is lacking cannot be counted

I said in my heart, "I have acquired great wisdom, surpassing all who were over Jerusalem before me, and my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also is but a striving after wind.

18 For in much wisdom is much vexation. and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.

The Vanity of Self-Indulgence

I said in my heart, "Come now, I will test 2 you with pleasure, enjoy yourself But behold, this also was vanity I said of laugh-ter. "It is mad," and of pleasure, "What use is it?" I searched with my heart how to cheer my body with wine-my heart still guiding me with wisdom and how to lay hold on folly till I might see what was good for the children of man to do under heaven during the few days of their life. I made great works. I built houses and planted vineyards for myself I made myself gardens and parks, and planted in them all kinds of fruit trees. "I made myself pools from which to water the forest of growing trees. 71 bought male and female slaves, and had slaves who were born in my house. I had also great possessions of herds and flocks, more than any who had been before me in lerusalem 1 also gathered for myself silver and gold and the treasure of kings and provinces. I got singers both men and women, and many concubines, the delight of the sons of man.

So I became great and surpassed all who were before me in Jerusalem. Also my wisdom remained with me "And whatever my eves desired I did not keep from them. I kept my heart from no pleasure, for my heart found pleasure in all my toil and this was my reward for all my toil. "Then I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended

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