Ecclesiastes 1:1~11
¹The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem: ²"Meaningless! Meaningless!" says the Teacher. "Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless." ³What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils 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. 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. ¹¹There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.