2. Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities! all is vanity.
3. What profit hath man of all his labour wherewith he laboureth under the sun?
4. One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth standeth for ever.
5. The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
6. The wind goeth towards the south, and turneth about towards the north: it turneth about continually, and the wind returneth again to its circuits.
7. All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full: unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.
8. All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9. That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which will be done: and there is nothing new under the sun.
10. Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already in the ages which were before us.