Ecclesiastes 1:4-9 - ESV Online

ECCLESIASTES 1:4-9

A generation goes, and a generation comes,

but the earth remains forever. 5

The sun rises, and the sun goes down,

and hastens to the place where it rises. 6

The wind blows to the south

and goes around to the north;

around and around goes the wind,

and on its circuits the wind returns. 7

All streams run to the sea,

but the sea is not full;

to the place where the streams flow,

there they flow again. 8

All things are full of weariness;

a man cannot utter it;

the eye is not satisfied with seeing,

nor the ear filled with hearing. 9

What has been is what will be,

and what has been done is what will be done,

and there is nothing new under the sun.

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