⁹ 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)