American Standard Version

Ecclesiastes 1:1-4 American Standard Version (ASV)

1. The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

2. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher; vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

3. What profit hath man of all his labor wherein he laboreth under the sun?

4. One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.