Ecclesiastes 1, sung word for word in more than 20 music styles, with the words on screen. Free. Choose a style and a voice to play it.
1 -These are the words of the Teacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:
2 -“Futility of futilities,” says the Teacher, “futility of futilities! Everything is futile!”
3 -What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
4 -Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
5 -The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
6 -The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.
7 -All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.
8 -All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
9 -What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
10 -Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.
11 -There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
12 -I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 -And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
14 -I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.
15 -What is crooked cannot be straightened, and what is lacking cannot be counted.
16 -I said to myself, “Behold, I have grown and increased in wisdom beyond all those before me who were over Jerusalem, and my mind has observed a wealth of wisdom and knowledge.”
17 -So I set my mind to know wisdom and madness and folly; I learned that this, too, is a pursuit of the wind.
18 -For with much wisdom comes much sorrow, and as knowledge grows, grief increases.
(Berean Standard Bible)
