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Ecclesiastes 1 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

1 All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.

2 What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.

3 0 Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us.

4 1 There is no remembrance of former things: nor indeed of those things which hereafter are to come, shall there be any remembrance with them that shall be in the latter end.

5 2 I Ecclesiastes was king over Israel in Jerusalem,

6 3 And I proposed in my mind to seek and search out wisely concerning all things that are done under the sun. This painful occupation hath God given to the children of men, to be exercised therein.

7 4 I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

8 5 The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

9 6 I have spoken in my heart, saying: Behold I am become great, and have gone beyond all in wisdom, that were before me in Jerusalem: and my mind hath contemplated many things wisely, and I have learned.

10 7 And I have given my heart to know prudence, and learning, and errors, and folly: and I have perceived that in these also there was labour, and vexation of spirit,

11 8 Because In much wisdom there is much indignation: and he that addeth knowledge, addeth also labour.

12 I said in my heart: I will go, and abound with delights, and enjoy good things. And I saw that this also was vanity.

13 Laughter I counted error: and to mirth I said: Why art thou vainly deceived?

14 I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, that I might turn my mind to wisdom, and might avoid folly, till I might see what was profitable for the children of men: and what they ought to do under the sun, all the days of their life.

15 I made me great works, I built me houses, and planted vineyards,

16 I made gardens, and orchards, and set them with trees of all kinds,

17 And I made me ponds of water, to water therewith the wood of the young trees,

18 I got me menservants, and maidservants, and had a great family: and herds of oxen, and great flocks of sheep, above all that were before me in Jerusalem:

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1899 Douay-Rheims Bible

Douay Old Testament first published by the English College at Douay, A.D. 1609. Rheims New Testament first published by the English College at Rheims, A.D. 1582. The Whole Revised and Diligently Compared with the Latin Vulgate by Bishop Richard Challoner, A.D. 1749-1752

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