11 There is no (A)remembrance of former things,[a]
    nor will there be any remembrance
of later things[b] yet to be
    among those who come after.

The Vanity of Wisdom

12 I (B)the Preacher have been king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13 And I (C)applied my heart[c] to seek and to search out by wisdom all that is done under heaven. It is an unhappy (D)business that God has given to the children of man to be busy with.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:11 Or former people
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:11 Or later people
  3. Ecclesiastes 1:13 The Hebrew term denotes the center of one's inner life, including mind, will, and emotions

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