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Poetic Books · book 21 of 66Ecclesiastes
The Preacher weighs everything under the sun and finds it vanity.
12chapters
222verses
Ecclabbreviation
OTOld Testament
How Ecclesiastes begins
The first verses of Ecclesiastes 1 in the King James Version.
- Eccl 1:1
The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
- Eccl 1:2
Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- Eccl 1:3
What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
- Eccl 1:4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
- Eccl 1:5
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
The 12 chapters of Ecclesiastes
Each chapter has its own page with the complete text.
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Ecclesiastes is book 21 of the 66 in the King James Bible, with 12 chapters and 222 verses in the public-domain text.