Ecclesiastes 1:1
Verse 1 of 18. The 1st of 12 chapters in Ecclesiastes, in Poetry and Wisdom.
1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.
2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?
4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
King James Version. Public domain. Set as prose throughout, including the poetry, because the text is published to us without its lines.