A generation went away, and a generation came: and the earth stood forever.

The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

There is no remembrance of those who came before;
and of those who will come after
there will also be no remembrance
by those who follow them.

So I came to be in despair about everything I had accomplished on earth.

Both go to one place--both came from dust and both return to dust.

Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.

For out of prison he came forth to be king; yea, even in his kingdom he was born poor.

There was no end to all the people, to all before whom he came, yet, they who should come later, would not rejoice in him, - surely, even this, was vanity, and a feeding on wind.

For the dream came in the multitude of labor; and the voice of the foolish one in the multitude of words.

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

So I saw the wicked buried, and they came to the grave ; and they that had done right went away from the holy place, and were forgotten in the city: this also is vanity.

Also this I came to see as wisdom under the sun, and it impressed me.

There was a little city, and few men within it; and there came a great king against it, and besieged it, and built great bulwarks against it:

Or dust be turned again unto earth from whence it came, and or the spirit return unto God, which gave it.