What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;(A)
    there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say,
    “Look! This is something new”?
It was here already, long ago;
    it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations,(B)
    and even those yet to come
will not be remembered
    by those who follow them.(C)

Wisdom Is Meaningless

12 I, the Teacher,(D) was king over Israel in Jerusalem.(E) 13 I applied my mind to study and to explore by wisdom all that is done under the heavens.(F) What a heavy burden God has laid on mankind!(G) 14 I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.(H)

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