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A worker pauses with empty hands while a faint breath dissipates in cool morning air.
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Ecclesiastes 1:1-3

The Question of Profit

Vapor and the Returning World · Ecclesiastes 1

Story guide: Interpretive visual essay. Anonymous figures and settings illustrate this passage; they are not identified historical people.

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1The words of Qoheleth, son of David, king in Jerusalem.

2Vapor of vapors, says Qoheleth; vapor of vapors—all is vapor.

3What profit does a person have from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?

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