Ecclesiastes 1:4-11 - Things Never Change

⁴ A generation passes away, and a generation comes; but the earth remains forever. ⁵ The sun also arises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it arose. ⁶ The wind goes toward the south, and it turns around to the north; it whirls around continually; and the wind returns on its circuits. ⁷ All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, there they return again. ⁸ All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. ⁹ That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is nothing new under the sun. ¹⁰ Is there a thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has already been in days of old, which were before us. ¹¹ There is no memory of former things, and also no memory of after things which shall be; for neither shall be a remembrance of them with those who will be at the afterwards.