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"Futility Illustrated from Nature What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?"
— Ecclesiastes 1:3, NET Bible
“What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?”
“What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun? ”
“What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?”
“What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?”
“What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?”
“What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?”
¶ Title The words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
Introduction: Utter Futility“Futile! Futile!” laments the Teacher,“Absolutely futile! Everything is futile!”
Futility Illustrated from Nature What benefit do people get from all the effort which they expend on earth?
A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains the same through the ages.
The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.
The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.