Ecclesiastes 1:8-10

Contemporary English Version

⁸ All of life is far more boring
    than words could ever say.
Our eyes and our ears
are never satisfied
    with what we see and hear.
⁹ Everything that happens
    has happened before;
nothing is new,
    nothing under the sun.
¹⁰ Someone might say,
    “Here is something new!”
But it happened before,
    long before we were born.