1 Composition of Qoheleth son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2 Sheer futility, Qoheleth says. Sheer futility: everything is futile!
3 What profit can we show for all our toil, toiling under the sun?
4 A generation goes, a generation comes, yet the earth stands firm for ever.
5 The sun rises, the sun sets; then to its place it speeds and there it rises.
6 Southward goes the wind, then turns to the north; it turns and turns again; then back to its circling goes the wind.
7 Into the sea go all the rivers, and yet the sea is never filled, and still to their goal the rivers go.
8 All things are wearisome. No one can say that eyes have not had enough of seeing, ears their fill of hearing.
9 What was, will be again, what has been done, will be done again, and there is nothing new under the sun!
10 Take anything which people acclaim as being new: it existed in the centuries preceding us.
11 No memory remains of the past, and so it will be for the centuries to come -- they will not be remembered by their successors.
12 I, Qoheleth, have reigned over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 Wisely I have applied myself to investigation and exploration of everything that happens under heaven. What a wearisome task God has given humanity to keep us busy!
14 I have seen everything that is done under the sun: how futile it all is, mere chasing after the wind!
15 What is twisted cannot be straightened, what is not there cannot be counted.
16 I thought to myself: I have acquired a greater stock of wisdom than anyone before me in Jerusalem. I myself have mastered every kind of wisdom and science.
17 I have applied myself to understanding philosophy and science, stupidity and folly, and I now realise that all this too is chasing after the wind.
18 Much wisdom, much grief; the more knowledge, the more sorrow.
Versículos relacionados com Ecclesiastes, 1:
Ecclesiastes 1 begins with the author, who presents himself as "the preacher", expressing his frustration and hopelessness about life. He argues that everything is vanity and running after the wind, for things do not change, and all we have is the futility of human existence. Below are five verses related to the topics covered in Ecclesiastes 1:
Psalm 39:5 - "Behold, he gave my days a span in length; my life is nothing before you; in fact, every man, as firm, is pure vanity." This verse highlights the idea that life is passing and of little importance before God, which echoes the central idea of Ecclesiastes 1.
James 4:14 - "For you do not know what will happen tomorrow. What is your life? This verse brings a message similar to that found in Ecclesiastes 1 by emphasizing the brevity of human life and the uncertainty of the future.
Isaiah 40:7-8-"Dry the grass, and the flower falls, blowing in it the breath of the Lord. In fact, the people are grass; the grass is dried, and their flower falls; but the word of Our God remains forever. " This verse has a vision similar to that presented in Ecclesiastes 1, of which everything is transitory and perishable.
Job 8:9 - "Because we are yesterday and we know nothing, because our days on earth are like a shadow." This verse expresses the idea that human life is brief and insignificant, which resonates with the feeling of hopelessness found in Ecclesiastes 1.
Psalm 90:10 - "The days of our lives come to seventy years, and if some, for their robustness, come to eighty years, their measure is tired and boring; for it passes quickly, and we fly." This verse emphasizes the brevity of human life and the fleeting of time, a recurring theme in Ecclesiastes 1.
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