Ecclesiastes 1:9-11

Contemporary English Version

⁹ Everything that happens
    has happened before;
nothing is new,
    nothing under the sun.
¹⁰ Someone might say,
    “Here is something new!”
But it happened before,
    long before we were born.
¹¹ No one who lived in the past
    is remembered anymore,
and everyone yet to be born
    will be forgotten too.