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Current coverage includes Ecclesiastes. More books are being added.
Ecclesiastes names much human striving as "vapor"—real activity that still fails to deliver lasting gain when measured by time, death, and forgetting. The book exposes the limits of a self-contained life and invites sober honesty about what endures.
Created goods can be received with gratitude, but they cannot bear the weight of ultimate meaning.
2"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher; "Vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
3What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
8Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; All is vanity!
11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.
9What profit has he who works in that in which he labors?
11For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?
14There is a vanity which is done on the earth, that there are righteous men to whom it happens according to the work of the wicked. Again, there are wicked men to whom it happens according to the work of the righteous. I said that this also is vanity.