The Preacher announces his theme, “Vanity of vanities! All is vanity,” and illustrates it with the tireless, repetitive cycles of nature: the sun rises and sets, the wind circles, the rivers run to the sea, yet nothing is ever full or finished. There is “nothing new under the sun,” and even great wisdom, which he acquired beyond all before him, only increases sorrow, for to know more is to see more clearly the crookedness and futility of the world.
Ecclesiastes study chapter
Ecclesiastes 1
c. 935 BC“Vanity of vanities”; life goes in weary circles, and there is nothing new under the sun.
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