"Vanity of vanities! All is vanity" Poem animation

Heres a virtual movie of a recital of a very beautiful and profound excerpt from Ecclesiastes "Vanity of vanities! All is vanity" I a person who has no formal reliigious belief think it is qiute fascinating that in a religious text the works and endeavours of man can be so elequently dismissed it seems to me that if one looks at what we at least believe or understand of evolution that our mark on this world will be but a temporary one,and when like all the creatures that lived before our time we have become extinct the world will continue qiute happily without us.

Film buffs may recognise the soundtrack used in this virtual,movie I personaly found the actual movie too obscure dull and grim to watch all the way through,but I could' not get this exquisitely dour powerful recital out of my mind so i hope you too may enjoy itt here. There have been numerous translations of the original Hebrew text of this piece as with all aspects of that greatest source of poetic inspiration the bible I havent found the exact representation of this recital as yet so i will give you a cropped version that at least begins similarly.

The Book of Ecclesiastes ( /ɨˌkliːziˈæstiːz/; literally "Book of the Teacher"; Hebrew: קֹהֶלֶת‎‎, Qoheleth), commonly referred to simply as Ecclesiastes (abbreviated "Ecc."), is a book of the Hebrew Bible. The English name derives from the Greek translation of the Hebrew title.

The main speaker in the book, identified by the name or title Qoheleth (usually translated as "teacher" or "preacher"), introduces himself as "son of David, king in Jerusalem." The work consists of personal or autobiographic matter, at times expressed in aphorisms and maxims illuminated in terse paragraphs with reflections on the meaning of life and the best way of life. The work emphatically proclaims all the actions of man to beinherently "vain", "futile", "empty", "meaningless", "temporary", "transitory", "fleeting, or "mere breath",

Kind Regards

Jim Clark
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Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher,
vanity of vanities! All is vanity.
3 What does man gain by all the toil
at which he toils under the sun?

So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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