Ecclesiastes 1:4-11

Christian Standard Bible

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.
⁹ What has been is what will be,
and what has been done is what will be done;
there is nothing new under the sun.
¹⁰ Can one say about anything,
“Look, this is new”?
It has already existed in the ages before us.
¹¹ There is no remembrance of those who^[b] came before;^(E)
and of those who will come after
there will also be no remembrance
by those who follow them.