Ecclesiastes 1:4-11 ▼

4 A generation goes, a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

5 The sun rises, the sun sets, then rushes back to where it arose.

6 The wind blows southward, then northward, constantly circulating, and the wind comes back again in its courses.

7 All the rivers flow toward the sea, but the sea is never full; then rivers return to the headwaters where they began.

8 Everything is wearisome, more than man is able to express. The eye is never satisfied by seeing, nor the ear by hearing.

9 Whatever has happened, will happen again; whatever has been done, will be done again. There is nothing new on earth.

10 Does anything exist about which someone might say, |Look at this! Is this new?| It happened ages ago; it existed before we did.

11 No one remembers those in the past, nor will they be remembered by those who come after them.