Ecclesiastes 1:3

Futility Illustrated from Nature

1:3 What benefit do people get from all the effort

which they expend on earth?

Ecclesiastes 2:9

2:9 So I was far wealthier than all my predecessors in Jerusalem,

yet I maintained my objectivity:

Ecclesiastes 12:8

Concluding Refrain: Qoheleth Restates His Thesis

12:8 “Absolutely futile!” laments the Teacher,

“All of these things are futile!”