Ecclesiastes 1:9-11

New Century Version

⁹ All things continue the way they have been since the beginning.
    What has happened will happen again;
    there is nothing new here on earth.
¹⁰ Someone might say,
    “Look, this is new,”
but really it has always been here.
    It was here before we were.
¹¹ People don’t remember what happened long ago,
    and in the future people will not remember what happens now.
    Even later, other people will not remember what was done before them.