Ecclesiastes 1:2-9

2“Meaningless! Meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”

3What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun?

4Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

5The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.

6The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.

7All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.

8All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

9What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.