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It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-7.htm"><b>7</b></a></span>All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-8.htm"><b>8</b></a></span>All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-9.htm"><b>9</b></a></span>That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-10.htm"><b>10</b></a></span>Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-11.htm"><b>11</b></a></span>There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.</p> <p class="hdg">With Wisdom Comes Sorrow</p><p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-12.htm"><b>12</b></a></span>I, the Preacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-13.htm"><b>13</b></a></span>I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-14.htm"><b>14</b></a></span>I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-15.htm"><b>15</b></a></span>That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.</p> <p class="reg"><span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-16.htm"><b>16</b></a></span>I said to myself, "Behold, I have obtained for myself great wisdom above all who were before me in Jerusalem. Yes, my heart has had great experience of wisdom and knowledge." <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-17.htm"><b>17</b></a></span>I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly. I perceived that this also was a chasing after wind. <span class="reftext"><a href="/ecclesiastes/1-18.htm"><b>18</b></a></span>For in much wisdom is much grief; and he who increases knowledge increases sorrow.</p></div></div><div id="botbox"><div class="padbot"><div align="center">The World English Bible is a 1997 revision of the American Standard Version of the Holy Bible, first published in 1901. It is in the Public Domain. Please feel free to copy and distribute it freely. Thank you to Michael Paul Johnson for making this work available. 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