Ecclesiastes 1:4-7

Contemporary English Version

⁵ The sun comes up,
    the sun goes down;
it hurries right back
    to where it started from.
⁶ The wind blows south,
    the wind blows north;
round and round it blows
    over and over again.
⁷ All rivers empty into the sea,
    but it never spills over;
one by one the rivers return
    to their source.^[a]