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Ecclesiastes 1:3

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

What hath a man more[over] of all his travail, by which he travaileth under the sun?

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And when I had turned me to all the works which mine hands had made, and to the travails in which I had sweated in vain, I saw in all things vanity and torment of soul, and that nothing under [the] sun dwelleth.

Again I cursed all my busyness, by which I travailed most studiously under [the] sun; and I shall have an heir after me,

whom I know not, whether he shall be wise either a fool; and he shall be lord in my travails, for which I sweated greatly, and was busy; and is there anything so vain?

For why what shall it profit to a man of all his travail, and torment of spirit, with which he was tormented under [the] sun?

What hath a man more of his travail?

and I deemed him, that was not born yet, and saw not the evils that be done under the sun, to be more blessed than ever either.

I beheld and found also another vanity under the sun;

Utterly it is a wretched sickness; as he came, so he shall turn again. What profiteth it to him, that he travailed into the wind?

Therefore this seemed good to me, that a man eat, and drink, and use gladness of his travail, in which he travailed under the sun, in the number of [the] days of his life, which God gave to him; and this is his part.

since he knoweth not, what shall befall to him in his life, in the number of days of his pilgrimage, and in the time that passeth as shadow? either who may show to him, what thing under [the] sun shall come after him?

Forsooth wisdom with riches is more profitable, and profiteth more to men seeing the sun.

Also I saw this wisdom under the sun, and I proved it the most.

This thing is the worst among all things, that be done under the sun, that the same thing befall to all men; wherefore and the hearts of the sons of men be filled with malice and with despising in their life; and after these things, they shall be led down into hells [or to hell].

Also their love, and hatred, and envy, perished altogether; and they have no part in this world, and in the work that is done under the sun.

Why weigh ye silver, and not in loaves, and your travail, not in fullness? Ye hearing hear me, and eat ye good things, and your soul shall delight in fatness.

Whether not these things be of the Lord of hosts? For peoples shall travail in much fire, and folks in vain, and they shall fail.

What profiteth the graven image, for his maker engraved it, a welled thing together, and [a] false image? for the maker thereof hoped in [the] making, that he made dumb simulacra.

For what profiteth it to a man [or what profiteth to a man], if he win all the world, and suffer impairing of his soul? or what exchanging shall a man give for his soul?

Work ye not meat that perisheth, but that that dwelleth into everlasting life, which meat man’s Son shall give to you; for God the Father hath marked him.

that also ye be subjects to such, and to each working together and travailing.




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