Ecclesiastes in the Septuagint
Read Ecclesiastes in Greek and English from Brenton's Septuagint. Choose a chapter to see each source's text and verse labels.
Opening of Ecclesiastes
1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king of Israel in Jerusalem.
2 Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3 What advantage is there to a man in all his labour that he takes under the sun?
4 A generation goes, and a generation comes: but the earth stands for ever.
5 And the sun arises, and the sun goes down and draws toward its place;
6 arising there it proceeds southward, and goes round toward the north. The wind goes round and round, and the wind returns to its circuits.
7 All the rivers run into the sea; and yet the sea is not filled: to the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
8 All things are full of labour; a man will not be able to speak of them : neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.
9 What is that which has been? the very thing which shall be: and what is that which has been done? the very thing which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
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