1. When the son of David was king in Jerusalem, he was known to be very wise, and he said:
2. Nothing makes sense!Everything is nonsense.I have seen it all—nothing makes sense!
3. What is there to showfor all our hard workhere on this earth?
4. People come, and people go,but still the worldnever changes.
5. The sun comes up,the sun goes down;it hurries right backto where it started from.
6. The wind blows south,the wind blows north;round and round it blowsover and over again.
7. All rivers empty into the sea,but it never spills over;one by one the rivers returnto their source.
8. All of life is far more boringthan words could ever say.Our eyes and our earsare never satisfiedwith what we see and hear.
9. Everything that happenshas happened before;nothing is new,nothing under the sun.
10. Someone might say,“Here is something new!”But it happened before,long before we were born.