Chiasm
Ecclesiastes 1:1–12
Ecclesiastes 1:1–122 matched frames
Read down to the center, where the pattern turns; then rise back out through its mirror.
- A 1 The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
- A 2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
- B 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
- C i. 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
- C ii. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
- C iii. 6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
- C iv. 7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
- B' 8 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
- B' 9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
- B' 10 Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
- B' 11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
- B 3 What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
- A' 12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
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