6. Going to the south, and turning round to the north, turning, turning, and on its rounds the wind returns.
7. All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea never overflows. To the place from which the rivers come, there they return again.
8. All matters are wearisome, no one is able to speak of it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9. What has been is what shall be, what has been done is what shall be done, and there is no new matter under the sun.
10. Is there a matter of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It was here already, long ago.
11. There is no remembrance of former ones, nor is there any remembrance of those that are to come by those who come later on.