Ecclesiastes 1:2-9

²Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities, all is vanity.

³What profit hath a man by all his labor with which he wearieth himself under the sun?

⁴One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; while the earth abideth for ever.

⁵The sun riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteneth to the place whence it arose.

⁶The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about to the north; round and round goeth the wind, and returneth to its circuits.

⁷All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; to the place whence the rivers come, thither they return.

⁸All words become weary; man cannot express it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

⁹The thing that hath been is that which shall be, and that which hath been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.