⁴ Generations come and generations go,
    but the earth remains forever.^(A)
5 The sun rises and the sun sets,
    and hurries back to where it rises.^(B)

⁹ What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;^(A)
    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.

¹⁵ Everyone comes naked from their mother’s womb,
    and as everyone comes, so they depart.^(A)
They take nothing from their toil^(B)
    that they can carry in their hands.^(C)

⁵ As you do not know the path of the wind,^(A)
    or how the body is formed^[a] in a mother’s womb,^(B)
so you cannot understand the work of God,
    the Maker of all things.