1 The words of David's son, Qoheleth, king in Jerusalem:
2 Vanity of vanities, says Qoheleth, vanity of vanities! All things are vanity!
3 What profit has man from all the labor which he toils at under the sun?
4 One generation passes and another comes, but the world forever stays.
5 The sun rises and the sun goes down; then it presses on to the place where it rises.
6 Blowing now toward the south, then toward the north, the wind turns again and again, resuming its rounds.
7 All rivers go to the sea, yet never does the sea become full. To the place where they go, the rivers keep on going.
8 All speech is labored; there is nothing man can say. The eye is not satisfied with seeing nor is the ear filled with hearing.
9 What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun.
10 Even the thing of which we say, "See, this is new!" has already existed in the ages that preceded us.
11 There is no remembrance of the men of old; nor of those to come will there be any remembrance among those who come after them.
12 I, Qoheleth, was king over Israel in Jerusalem,
13 and I applied my mind to search and investigate in wisdom all things that are done under the sun. A thankless task God has appointed for men to be busied about.
14 I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a chase after wind.
15 What is crooked cannot be made straight, and what is missing cannot be supplied.
16 Though I said to myself, "Behold, I have become great and stored up wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem, and my mind has broad experience of wisdom and knowledge";
17 yet when I applied my mind to know wisdom and knowledge, madness and folly, I learned that this also is a chase after wind.
18 For in much wisdom there is much sorrow, and he who stores up knowledge stores up grief.
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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