³ What do people gain from all their labors
    at which they toil under the sun?^(A)

⁸ All things are wearisome,
    more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,^(A)
    nor the ear its fill of hearing.
⁹ What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;^(B)
    there is nothing new under the sun.
¹⁰ Is there anything of which one can say,
    “Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
    it was here before our time.
¹¹ No one remembers the former generations,^(C)
    and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
    by those who follow them.^(D)