RESTORATION SCRIPTURES TRUE NAME EDITION Study Bible

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The words of the Koheleth, ben Dawid, melech in
Yahrushalayim.
2 Vanity of vanities, says the Koheleth, vanity of vanities;
all is vanity.
3 What profit has a man of all his labor that he toils under
the sun?
4 One generation passes away, and another generation
comes: but the earth abides forever.
5 The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries
to its place where it arose.
6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the
north; it whirls around continually, and the wind returns
again according to its circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to
the place from where the rivers come, there they return
again.
8 All things are wearisome; man is not satisfied with
utterance: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear
filled with hearing.
9 The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and
that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is
no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which it may be said, See, this is
new? It has been already of old time, which was before
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11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither
shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come
with those that shall come after.
12 I the Koheleth was melech over Yisrael in
Yahrushalayim.
13 And I gave my lev to seek and search out by
chochmah concerning all things that are done under the
shamayim: this evil task has Elohim given to the sons of
men to be humbled by it.
14 I have seen all the works that are done under the sun;
and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of ruach.
15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and
that which is lacking cannot be numbered.
16 I communed with my own lev, saying, See, I am come
to great estate, and have gotten more chochmah than all
they that have been before me in Yahrushalayim: yes, my
lev has seen much chochmah and da’at.
17 And I set my lev to know chochmah, and to know
transgression and folly: I perceived that this too is
vexation of ruach.
18 For in much chochmah is much grief: and he that
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I said in my lev, Come now, I will prove you with
rejoicing, therefore enjoy pleasure: and, behold, this also
is vanity.
2 I said of laughter, It is mad: and of rejoicing, What does
it do?
3 I sought in my lev to give myself to wine, while guiding
my lev with chochmah; and how to lay hold on folly, until
I might see what was that tov for the sons of men, to do
under the shamayim all the days of their chayim.
4 I made great works; I built my houses; I planted my
vineyards:
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5 I made myself gardens and orchards, and I planted
eytzim in them of all kind of fruits:
6 I made my pools of mayim, to water the grove that
brings forth eytzim:
7 I had male avadim and female avadim, and had avadim
born in my bayit; also I had great possessions of great and
small cattle above all that were in Yahrushalayim before
me:
8 I gathered also silver and gold, and the peculiar
treasures of melechim and of the provinces: I got for
myself men singers and women singers, and the delights
of the sons of men, and I appointed for myself butlers and
waitresses.
9 So I was great, and increased more than all that were
before me in Yahrushalayim: also my chochmah
remained with me.
10 And whatever my eyes desired I kept not from them, I
withheld not my lev from any simcha; for my lev rejoiced
in all my labor: and this was my portion of all my labor.
11 Then I looked on all the works that my hands had
made, and on the labor that I had labored to do: and,
behold, all was vanity and vexation of ruach, and there
was no gain under the sun.
12 And I turned myself to behold chochmah, and
transgression, and folly: for what can the man do that
comes after the melech? Even that which has been
already done.
13 Then I saw that chochmah is better than folly, as far as
light is better than darkness.
14 The wise man’s eyes are in his head; but the fool has
his halacha in darkness: and I myself perceived also that
one event happens to them all.
15 Then said I in my lev, As it happens to the fool, so it
happens even to me; and why was I then more wise?
Then I said in my lev, that this also is vanity.
16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of
the fool forever; seeing that which now is in the days to
come shall all be forgotten. And how dies the wise man?
As the fool.
17 Therefore I hated chayim; because the work that is
done under the sun is grievous to me: for all is vanity and
vexation of ruach.
18 Yes, I hated all my labor that I had taken under the
sun: because I should leave it to the man that shall be
after me.
19 And who knows whether he shall be a wise man, or a
fool? Yet shall he have rule over all my labor that I have
labored, and in which I have shown myself wise under the
sun. This is also vanity.
20 Therefore I went about to cause my lev to despair of
all the labor which I toiled under the sun.
21 For there is a man whose labor is in chochmah, and in
da’at, and in equity; yet to a man that has not labored for
it shall he leave it for his portion. This also is vanity and a
great evil.
22 For what has man from all his labor, and of the
vexation of his lev, in which he has labored under the
sun?
23 For all his days are sorrows, and his work grievous;