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Ecclesiastes 1
Ecclesiastes 1:1-3
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Ecclesiastes 1:1-3
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All Is Vanity
1
The words of
1
the Preacher,
[a]
the son of David,
2
king in Jerusalem.
2
3
Vanity
[b]
of vanities, says
4
the Preacher,
5
vanity of vanities!
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All is vanity.
3
7
What
8
does man gain by all the toil at which he toils under the sun?
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1.
ver. 12;
Ecclesiastes 7:27
;
Ecclesiastes 12:8-10
2.
ver. 12
3.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
4.
[See ver. 1 above]
5.
Ecclesiastes 12:8
6.
[
Romans 8:20
]
7.
ver. 14;
Psalms 144:4
; See
Job 7:16
;
Psalms 39:5
8.
Ecclesiastes 2:11, 22
;
Ecclesiastes 3:9
;
Ecclesiastes 5:16
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2
[a].
Or Convener, or Collector; Hebrew Qoheleth (so throughout Ecclesiastes)
[b].
Hebrew vapor (so throughout Ecclesiastes)
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