Pearce Church - Sunday Sermons

Everything Is Meaningless
1 The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem:

2 "Meaningless! Meaningless!"
       says the Teacher.
       "Utterly meaningless!
       Everything is meaningless."

3 What does 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,
and hurries back to where it rises.

6 The wind blows to the south
       and turns to the north;
       round and round it goes,
       ever returning on its course.

7 All streams flow into the sea,
       yet the sea is never full.
       To the place the streams come from,
       there they return again.

8 All things are wearisome,
       more than one can say.
       The eye never has enough of seeing,
       nor the ear its fill of hearing.

9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;
there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there anything of which one can say,
       "Look! This is something new"?
       It was here already, long ago;
       it was here before our time.

11 There is no remembrance of men of old,
       and even those who are yet to come
       will not be remembered
       by those who follow.