Ecclesiastes 1:8-10

International Children’s Bible

⁸ Everything is boring.
    It makes you so tired you don’t even want to talk about it.
Words come again and again to our ears.
    But we never can hear enough.
    Nor can we ever really see all we want to see.
⁹ All things continue the way they have been since the beginning.
    The same things will be done that have always been done.
    There is nothing new here on earth.
¹⁰ A person might say,
    “Look, this is new!”
But really it has always been here.
    It was here before we were!