⁴ A generation goes and a generation comes,
but the earth remains forever.^(A)
5 The sun rises and the sun sets;
panting, it hurries back to the place^(B)
where it rises.
⁶ Gusting to the south,
turning to the north,
turning, turning, goes the wind,^(C)
and the wind returns in its cycles.
⁷ All the streams flow to the sea,
yet the sea is never full;
to the place where the streams flow,
there they flow again.
⁸ All things^[a] are wearisome,
more than anyone can say.
The eye is not satisfied by seeing^(D)
or the ear filled with hearing.

¹⁹ You will eat bread^[a] by the sweat of your brow
until you return to the ground,^(A)
since you were taken from it.
For you are dust,
and you will return to dust.”

All flesh is like grass,
and all its glory^(A) like a flower of the grass.
The grass withers, and the flower falls,

¹⁴ Fire has gone out from its main branch^[a]
and has devoured its fruit,
so that it no longer has a strong branch,
a scepter for ruling.^(A)