Also, the sun rises and the sun sets;
And hurries to the place where it rises again.

That which has been is that which will be [again],
And that which has been done is that which will be done again.
So there is nothing new under the sun.

I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity, a futile grasping and chasing after the wind.

Then I considered all which my hands had done and labored to do, and behold, all was vanity and chasing after the wind and there was no profit (nothing of lasting value) under the sun.

So I turned to consider [secular] wisdom, madness, and folly; for what will the man do who succeeds the king? Nothing except what has already been done.

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun caused me only great sorrow; because all is futility and chasing after the wind.

A time to kill and a time to heal;
A time to tear down and a time to build up.

He has made everything beautiful and appropriate in its time. He has also planted eternity [a sense of divine purpose] in the human heart [a mysterious longing which nothing under the sun can satisfy, except God]—yet man cannot find out (comprehend, grasp) what God has done (His overall plan) from the beginning to the end.

But better off than either of them is the one who has not yet been born, who has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Again, if two lie down together, then they keep warm; but how can one be warm alone?

Wisdom strengthens the wise man more than ten rulers who are in a city.

All this I have seen while applying my mind to every deed that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has exercised power over others to their detriment.

So then, I have seen the wicked buried, those who used to go in and out of the holy place [but did not thereby escape their doom], and they are [praised in spite of their evil and] soon forgotten in the city where they did such things. This too is futility (vanity, emptiness).

and I saw all the work of God, I concluded that man cannot discover the work that is done under the sun. Even though man may labor in seeking, he will not discover; and [more than that], though a wise man thinks and claims he knows, he will not be able to find it out.

This evil is in all that is done under the sun, that one fate comes to all. Also, the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil, and madness is in their hearts while they live, and afterwards they go to the dead.

Indeed their love, their hatred and their zeal have already perished, and they will no longer have a share [in this age] in anything that is done under the sun.

The labor of a fool so wearies him [because he is ignorant] that he does not even know how to go to a city.

Therefore, remove sorrow and anger from your heart and put away pain from your body, for childhood and the prime of life are fleeting.

The Preacher sought to find delightful words, even to write correctly words of truth.