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¶ The wordes of the Preacher, the son of Dauid, King in Ierusalem.

Uanitie of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanitie of vanities, all is vanitie.

1611 marginal noteChap.12.9 psal.144.4. psal.36.6. and 62.9.

What profite hath a man of all his labour which hee taketh vnder the Sunne?

1611 marginal noteCha.2.22. and 3.9.

One generation passeth away, and another generation commeth: but the earth abideth for euer.

1611 marginal notePsal.104.5 & 119.90.

The Sunne also ariseth, and the Sunne goeth downe, and hasteth to the place where he arose.

1611 marginal noteHeb. panteth.

The winde goeth toward the South, and turneth about vnto the North; it whirleth about continually, and the winde returneth againe according to his circuits.

All the riuers runne into the sea, yet the Sea is not full: vnto the place from whence the riuers come, thither they returne againe.

1611 marginal noteHeb. returne to goe.

1611 marginal notePsal. 104.9, 10. iob 38.10.

All things are full of labour, man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.

The thing that hath beene, it is that which shall be: and that which is done, is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing vnder the sunne.

1611 marginal noteCha. 3.15.

¶ I the Preacher was king ouer Israel in Ierusalem.