Ecclesiastes 1:4-12

⁴A generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth standeth without end.

⁵The sun riseth up, and goeth down, and turneth again to his place; and there it riseth again,

⁶and compasseth by the south, and turneth again to the north. The spirit compassing all things goeth about, and turneth again into his circles.

⁷All floods enter into the sea, and the sea floweth not over the marks set of God; the floods turn again to the place from whence they come forth, that they flow out again.

⁸All things be hard; a man may not declare those things by word; the eye is not filled by sight, neither the ear is filled by hearing.

⁹What is that thing that was, that that shall come? What is that thing that is made, that that shall be made? Nothing under the sun is new,

¹⁰neither any man may say, Lo! this thing is new; for now it went before in worlds, that were before us.

¹¹Mind of the former things is not, but soothly neither thinking of those things, that shall come afterward, shall be at them that shall come in the last time.

¹²I Ecclesiastes was king of Israel in Jerusalem;