 This is the New International Version. So chapter 1, verse 2 and 3. Meaningless, meaningless, says the teacher. Utterly meaningless. Everything is meaningless. What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? Well, what a beginning. Is this book meant to make us depressed? No, I don't think so. In fact, I think it's meant to cause us to live in a manner that's not meaningless.