(A)What (B)does man gain by all the toil
    at which he toils under the sun?
A generation goes, and a generation comes,
    but (C)the earth remains forever.
(D)The sun rises, and the sun goes down,
    and hastens[a] to the place where it rises.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:5 Or and returns panting

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