Ecclesiastes 1:3-8

International Children’s Bible

⁴ People live, and people die.
    But the earth continues forever.
⁵ The sun rises, and the sun sets.
    Then it hurries back to the place where it rises again.
⁶ The wind blows to the south.
    Then it blows to the north.
It blows from one direction and then another.
    Then it turns around and repeats the same pattern, going nowhere.
⁷ All the rivers flow to the sea.
    But the sea never becomes full.
⁸ Everything is boring.
    It makes you so tired you don’t even want to talk about it.
Words come again and again to our ears.
    But we never can hear enough.
    Nor can we ever really see all we want to see.