Air and emptiness 2 Air and void, says Ecclesiastes, air and emptiness, everything is emptiness. 3 What profit hath a man of all that he has acquired though laborious toil under the sun? 4 Generations go, generations to come, but the earth abideth forever. 5 The sun rises, the sun goes down, and she always rushes to the place where they will go again. 6 The wind blows to the south, then he turns to the north. He turns and turns and blows, and while turning the wind blows back. 7 All the rivers flow into the sea, do not touch the sea full. The rivers return to, they go back to the place from which they come, and begin to flow again. 8 Everything is tiring, so much so that there are no words to find. Watch the eyes of a man, and find no rest, hear his ears, and they keep hearing. 9 What was, will always be there again, what has been done, it will always be done again. There is nothing new under the sun. 10 If they say something like: "Look, something new," then it is always something that has been there. since ancient times 11 The earlier generations have forgotten, and will be forgotten. again in the coming
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