Ecclesiastes 1:9-14

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

10Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.

11No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

Wisdom Is Meaningless 12I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem. 13I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens. What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!

14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.