About the book: year / Vanity of vanities - all is vanity. What profit does a man get from all his labors with which he is busy under the sun? A generation passes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises, and the sun sets, and again hurries to the place where it rises. The wind goes to the south and comes to the north, spins and spins on its way, and the wind returns to its circles. All rivers flow into the sea, but the sea does not overflow: they return to the place from which the rivers flow. All things are in labor: a person cannot retell everything; The eye will not be satisfied with seeing, nor the ear will be filled with hearing. What has been is what will be; and what has been done will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. There is something about which they say: “Look, this is new”; but this was already in the centuries that were before us. There is no memory of the past, and there will be no memory left of what will happen.