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1 ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑΣΤΗΣECCLESIASTES - Brenton|RSVReference
1Ῥήματα Ἑκκλησιαστοῦ
υἱοῦ Δαυιδ βασιλέως Ισραηλ ἐν Ιερουσαλημ.		 The words of the Preacher,
the son of David, king of Israel in Jerusalem.		ECCLESIASTES. Life is useless. Ec.1.1-11
2Ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, εἶπεν ὁ Ἑκκλησιαστής,
ματαιότης ματαιοτήτων, τὰ πάντα ματαιότης.
 Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher,
vanity of vanities; all is vanity.		 
3τίς περισσεία τῷ ἀνθρώπῳ ἐν παντὶ μόχθῳ αὐτοῦ,
ᾧ μοχθεῖ ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον;
 What advantage [is there] to a man in all his labour that he takes under the sun? 
4γενεὰ πορεύεται καὶ γενεὰ ἔρχεται,
καὶ ἡ γῆ εἰς τὸν αἰῶνα ἕστηκεν.
 A generation goes, and a generation comes:
but the earth stands for ever.		 
5καὶ ἀνατέλλει ὁ ἥλιος καὶ δύνει ὁ ἥλιος
καὶ εἰς τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ ἕλκει·
 And the sun arises, and the sun goes down
and draws toward its place;		 
6ἀνατέλλων αὐτὸς ἐκεῖ πορεύεται πρὸς νότον
καὶ κυκλοῖ πρὸς βορρᾶν·
κυκλοῖ κυκλῶν, πορεύεται τὸ πνεῦμα,
καὶ ἐπὶ κύκλους αὐτοῦ ἐπιστρέφει τὸ πνεῦμα.
 arising there it proceeds southward,
and goes round toward the north.
The wind goes round and round,
and the wind returns to its circuits.		 
7πάντες οἱ χείμαρροι, πορεύονται εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν,
καὶ ἡ θάλασσα οὐκ ἔσται ἐμπιμπλαμένη·
εἰς τόπον, οὗ οἱ χείμαρροι πορεύονται,
ἐκεῖ αὐτοὶ ἐπιστρέφουσιν τοῦ πορευθῆναι.
 All the rivers run into the sea;
and yet the sea is not filled:
to the place whence the rivers come,
thither they return again.		 
8πάντες οἱ λόγοι ἔγκοποι·
οὐ δυνήσεται ἀνὴρ τοῦ λαλεῖν,
καὶ οὐκ ἐμπλησθήσεται ὀφθαλμὸς τοῦ ὁρᾶν,
καὶ οὐ πληρωθήσεται οὖς ἀπὸ ἀκροάσεως.
 All things are full of labour;
a man will not be able to speak [of them]:
neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing,
neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.		 
9τί τὸ γεγονός, αὐτὸ τὸ γενησόμενον·
καὶ τί τὸ πεποιημένον, αὐτὸ τὸ ποιηθησόμενον·
καὶ οὐκ ἔστιν πᾶν πρόσφατον ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον.
 What is that which has been? the very thing which shall be: and what is that which has been done? the very thing which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun. 
10ὃς λαλήσει καὶ ἐρεῖ Ἰδὲ τοῦτο καινόν ἐστιν,
ἤδη γέγονεν ἐν τοῖς αἰῶσιν
τοῖς γενομένοις ἀπὸ ἔμπροσθεν ἡμῶν.
 [Who is he] that shall speak and say,
Behold, this is new?
it has already been in the ages that have passed before us.		 
11οὐκ ἔστιν μνήμη τοῖς πρώτοις,
καί γε τοῖς ἐσχάτοις γενομένοις·
οὐκ ἔσται αὐτοῖς μνήμη
μετὰ τῶν γενησομένων εἰς τὴν ἐσχάτην.
 There is no memorial to the first things;
neither to the things that have been last shall their memorial be with them that shall at the last [time].		 
12Ἑγὼ Ἑκκλησιαστὴς ἐγενόμην
βασιλεὺς ἐπὶ Ισραηλ ἐν Ιερουσαλημ·
 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.The philosopher's experience. Ec.1.12-2.26
13καὶ ἔδωκα τὴν καρδίαν μου τοῦ ἐκζητῆσαι
καὶ τοῦ κατασκέψασθαι ἐν τῇ σοφίᾳ περὶ πάντων,
τῶν γινομένων ὑπὸ τὸν οὐρανόν, ὅτι περισπασμὸν πονηρὸν
ἔδωκεν ὁ θεὸς τοῖς υἱοῖς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου
τοῦ περισπᾶσθαι ἐν αὐτῷ.
 And I applied my heart to seek out and examine by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven, for God has given to the sons of men an evil trouble to be troubled therewith. 
14εἶδον σὺν πάντα τὰ ποιήματα
τὰ πεποιημένα ὑπὸ τὸν ἥλιον,
καὶ ἰδοὺ τὰ πάντα ματαιότης καὶ προαίρεσις πνεύματος.
 I beheld all the works that were wrought under the sun;
and, beheld, all were vanity and waywardness of spirit.		 
15διεστραμμένον οὐ δυνήσεται τοῦ ἐπικοσμηθῆναι,
καὶ ὑστέρημα οὐ δυνήσεται τοῦ ἀριθμηθῆναι.
 That which is crooked cannot be made straight:
and deficiency cannot be numbered.		 
16ἐλάλησα ἐγὼ ἐν καρδίᾳ μου τῷ λέγειν
Ἑγὼ ἰδοὺ ἐμεγαλύνθην,
καὶ προσέθηκα σοφίαν ἐπὶ πᾶσιν,
οἳ ἐγένοντο ἔμπροσθέν μου ἐν Ιερουσαλημ·
καὶ καρδία μου εἶδεν πολλά, σοφίαν καὶ γνῶσιν.
 I spoke in my heart, saying,
Behold, I am increased, and have acquired wisdom beyond all who were before me in Jerusalem:
also I applied my heart to know wisdom and knowledge.		 
17καὶ ἔδωκα καρδίαν μου τοῦ γνῶναι σοφίαν καὶ γνῶσιν,
παραβολὰς καὶ ἐπιστήμην ἔγνων,
ὅτι καί γε τοῦτ' ἔστιν προαίρεσις πνεύματος·
 And my heart knew much -
wisdom, and knowledge, parables and understanding:
I perceived that this also is waywardness of spirit.		 
18ὅτι ἐν πλήθει σοφίας πλῆθος γνώσεως,
καὶ ὁ προστιθεὶς γνῶσιν προσθήσει ἄλγημα.
 For in the abundance of wisdom is abundance of knowledge;
and he that increases knowledge will increase sorrow.		 
    | Ecclesiastes: 1 | >>  

Notes:

The Old Testament in Greek is Rahlf's LXX available in Word format at the Tyndale website, adapted to database format.
The alternative readings of the LXX - Judges (Alexandrinus), Daniel, Susanna & Bel (LXX received text), and Tobit (Sinaiticus [not printed in Swete]) as separate book references so that they can be viewed as an alternative text in parallel with the primary text.
(I have reversed the Swete presentation for Daniel, Susanna, Bel by listing in the later Theodotion LXX text as the main text. )
The LXX cross references to the Hebrew Bible have been extensively revised using those set out in Swete's 'Old Testament in Greek' publications between 1894 and 1909, amended in part to agree with verses as printed in the Biblia Hebraica (1937 publication).
Some verse cross references in Swete's had to be amended to agree with the BHS verse numbering, and there may well be some mismatches that I haven't yet picked up on. (If you find any errors please e-mail me.)
Hebrew Bible has been adapted from the BHS in Word format at Tyndale.
The Septuagint in English ( translated by Sir Lancelot CL Brenton) - is used here only for the books of the Hebrew Bible.
The Revised Standard Version: This generally follows the Hebrew Bible for the canonical OT so I have included the RSV Aprocrypha for the Greek books not covered by Brenton.
Ecclesiasticus - Sirach Chs.30-36: The text of these chapters from 30.24 to 36.16, is disordered.
I have followed Swete's verse numbering for the greek text.
Also, the RSV verse numbering differs from the NRSV.
The NRSV appears to have followed Swete's numbering here, so I have re-ordered the RSV to agree with both the NRSV & Swete for these chapters.
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Passage headings are generally as printed in the Bible Society's "Good News Bible", 1976.
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