Ecclesiastes 1:2-9

²Vanity of vanities, said the Preacher, Vanity of vanities: the whole is vanity.

³What advantage is to man by all his labour that he laboureth at under the sun?

⁴A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.

⁵Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.

⁶Going unto the south, and turning round unto the north, turning round, turning round, the wind is going, and by its circuits the wind hath returned.

⁷All the streams are going unto the sea, and the sea is not full; unto a place whither the streams are going, thither they are turning back to go.

⁸All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.

⁹What is that which hath been? it is that which is, and what is that which hath been done? it is that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.