Ecclesiastes 1:5-11

⁵The sun rises, and it goes down and hurries back to the place where it rises again.

⁶The wind blows south and circles around to the north, always going around along its pathway and coming back again.

⁷All the rivers flow into the sea, but the sea is never full. To the place where the rivers go, there they go again.

⁸Everything becomes wearisome, and no one can explain it. The eye is not satisfied by what it sees, nor is the ear fulfilled by what it hears.

⁹Whatever has been is what will be, and whatever has been done is what will be done. There is nothing new under the sun.

¹⁰Is there anything about which it may be said, 'Look, this is new'? Whatever exists has already existed for a long time, during ages which came long before us.

¹¹No one seems to remember the things that happened in ancient times, and the things that happened much later and that will happen in the future will not likely be remembered either.”