⁴ ·People live [^LA generation goes], and ·people die [^La generation comes],
    but the earth ·continues [endures; remains] forever.
⁵ The sun rises, the sun sets,
    and then it ·hurries back [^Lpants] to where it rises again [Ps. 19:5–6].
⁶ ·The wind [^LIt] blows to the south;
    it ·blows [^Lgoes around] to the north.
·It blows from one direction and then another [^LThe wind goes round and round].
    ·Then it turns around and repeats the same pattern, going nowhere [^LThe wind keeps blowing in circles].
⁷ All the rivers flow to the sea,
    but the sea never becomes full.
    The rivers return to the place from which they flow.
⁸ Everything is ·boring [wearisome],
    ·so boring that you don’t even want to talk about it [^Lbeyond words].
·Words come again and again to our ears,
    but we never hear enough [^LThe ear is never satisfied with hearing],
    nor ·can we ever really see all we want to see [^Lthe eye with seeing].
⁹ ·All things continue the way they have been since the beginning [^LWhatever is will be again].
    What has happened will happen again;
    there is nothing new ·here on earth [^Lunder the sun; v. 3].
¹⁰ ·Someone might say [^LHere is a common expression],
    “Look, this is new,”
but ·really it has always been here [it was already here long ago].
    It ·was here before we were [existed before our time].
¹¹ ·People don’t remember what happened long ago [^LThere is no remembrance of the past],
    ·and in the future people will not remember what happens now [^Lnor will there be any remembrance of what will be in the future].
·Even later, other people will not remember what was done before them [^LThere is no remembrance of them among those who will exist in the future].