Ecclesiastes 1:3-9

³What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?

⁴One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever.

⁵The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again,

⁶Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits.

⁷All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.

⁸All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.

⁹What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.