2 “Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher,“Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”
3 What benefit do people get from all the effortwhich they expend on earth?
4 A generation comes and a generation goes,but the earth remains the same through the ages.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets;it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.
6 The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north;round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.
7 All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is not full,and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again.
8 All this monotony is tiresome; no one can bear to describe it:The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor is the ear ever content with hearing.