There is a thing of which one saith: 'See this, it is new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

I got men-servants, and maid-servants, and sons of the house were to me; also, I had much substance -- herd and flock -- above all who had been before me in Jerusalem.

there is no end to all the people, to all who were before them; also, the latter rejoice not in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Say not thou, 'What was it, That the former days were better than these?' For thou hast not asked wisely of this.