Ecclesiastes 1:10-13

¹⁰Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

¹¹There is no remembrance of the former generations; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.

¹²I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

¹³And I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under heaven: it is a sore travail that God hath given to the sons of men to be exercised therewith.