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    "language": "en",
    "book": "ecclesiastes",
    "chapter": 1
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    "n": 1,
    "bookSlug": "ecclesiastes",
    "bookCode": "ECC",
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    "paragraphs": [{
        "n": 1,
        "refId": "ECC-1:1",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.1",
        "text": "The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem."
      },{
        "n": 2,
        "refId": "ECC-1:2",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.2",
        "text": "Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity."
      },{
        "n": 3,
        "refId": "ECC-1:3",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.3",
        "text": "What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?"
      },{
        "n": 4,
        "refId": "ECC-1:4",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.4",
        "text": "One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever."
      },{
        "n": 5,
        "refId": "ECC-1:5",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.5",
        "text": "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth."
      },{
        "n": 6,
        "refId": "ECC-1:6",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.6",
        "text": "The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it turneth about continually in its course, and the wind returneth again to its circuits."
      },{
        "n": 7,
        "refId": "ECC-1:7",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.7",
        "text": "All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again."
      },{
        "n": 8,
        "refId": "ECC-1:8",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.8",
        "text": "All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing."
      },{
        "n": 9,
        "refId": "ECC-1:9",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.9",
        "text": "That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun."
      },{
        "n": 10,
        "refId": "ECC-1:10",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.10",
        "text": "Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us."
      },{
        "n": 11,
        "refId": "ECC-1:11",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.11",
        "text": "There is no remembrance of the former [generations]; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter [generations] that are to come, among those that shall come after."
      },{
        "n": 12,
        "refId": "ECC-1:12",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.12",
        "text": "I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem."
      },{
        "n": 13,
        "refId": "ECC-1:13",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.13",
        "text": "And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith."
      },{
        "n": 14,
        "refId": "ECC-1:14",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.14",
        "text": "I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind."
      },{
        "n": 15,
        "refId": "ECC-1:15",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.15",
        "text": "That which is crooked cannot be made straight; and that which is wanting cannot be numbered."
      },{
        "n": 16,
        "refId": "ECC-1:16",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.16",
        "text": "I communed with mine own hear, saying, Lo, I have gotten me great wisdom above all that were before me in Jerusalem; yea, my heart hath had great experience of wisdom and knowledge."
      },{
        "n": 17,
        "refId": "ECC-1:17",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.17",
        "text": "And I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to know madness and folly: I perceived that this also was a striving after wind."
      },{
        "n": 18,
        "refId": "ECC-1:18",
        "verseRef": "Eccl.1.18",
        "text": "For in much wisdom is much grief; and he that increaseth knowledge increaseth sorrow."
      }
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