7. All the streams are going unto the sea, and the sea is not full; unto a place whither the streams are going, thither they are turning back to go.
8. All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.
9. What [is] that which hath been? it [is] that which is, and what [is] that which hath been done? it [is] that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.
10. There is a thing of which [one] saith: `See this, it [is] new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!
11. There is not a remembrance of former [generations]; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.