Ecclesiastes 1:4-7

New International Reader's Version

⁴ People come and people go.
    But the earth remains forever.
⁵ The sun rises. Then it sets.
    And then it hurries back to where it rises.
⁶ The wind blows to the south.
    Then it turns to the north.
Around and around it goes.
    It always returns to where it started.
⁷ Every stream flows into the ocean.
    But the ocean never gets full.
The streams return
    to the place they came from.