5. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to the place it rises.
6. The wind goes toward the south, and circles around to the north. Round and round it swirls about, ever returning to its circuits.
7. All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they go again.
8. All things are wearisome. No one can express them. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9. What has been is what will be, and what has been done will be done again. There is nothing new under the sun.
10. Is there anything about which is said, “Look! This is new!”? It was already here long ago, in the ages long before us.
11. There is no remembrance for former things, and things yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.
12. I, Kohelet, am king over Israel in Jerusalem.