7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, there they return again.
8 All things are full of labour; more than man can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing nor the ear filled with hearing.
9 The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.
10 Is there any thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time which was before us.
11 There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
12 I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all things that are done under heaven (this sore travail God has given to the sons of man that they be occupied in it).