| 1. The words of Koheleth son of David, king in Jerusalem. |
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א. |
| 2. Vanity of vanities, said Koheleth; vanity of vanities, all is vanity. |
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ב. |
| 3. What profit has man in all his toil that he toils under the sun? |
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ג. |
| 4. A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth endures forever. |
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ד. |
| 5. The sun rises and the sun sets, and to its place it yearns and rises there. |
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ה. |
| 6. It goes to the south and goes around to the north; the will goes around and around, and the will returns to its circuits. |
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ו. |
| 7. All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers flow, there they repeatedly go. |
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ז. |
| 8. All things are wearisome; no one can utter it; the eye shall not be sated from seeing, nor shall the ear be filled from hearing. |
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ח. |
| 9. 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. |
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ט. |
| 10. There is a thing of which [someone] will say, "See this, it is new." It has already been for ages which were before us. |
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י. |
| 11. [But] there is no remembrance of former [generations], neither will the later ones that will be have any remembrance among those that will be afterwards. |
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יא. |
| 12. I am Koheleth; I was king over Israel in Jerusalem. |
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יב. |
| 13. And I applied my heart to inquire and to search with wisdom all that was done under the heaven. It is a sore task that God has given to the sons of men with which to occupy themselves. |
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יג. |
| 14. I saw all the deeds that were done under the sun, and behold, everything is vanity and frustration. |
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יד. |
| 15. What is crooked will not be able to be straightened, and what is missing will not be able to be counted. |
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טו. |
| 16. I spoke to myself, saying, "I acquired and increased great wisdom, more than all who were before me over Jerusalem"; and my heart saw much wisdom and knowledge. |
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טז. |
| 17. And I applied my heart to know wisdom and to know madness and folly; I know that this too is a frustration. |
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יז. |
| 18. For in much wisdom is much vexation, and he who increases knowledge, increases pain. |
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יח. |
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