A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains the same through the ages.

For the wise man, like the fool, will not be remembered for very long, because in the days to come, both will already have been forgotten. Alas, the wise man dies – just like the fool!

What they loved, as well as what they hated and envied, perished long ago, and they no longer have a part in anything that happens on earth.

I also know that whatever God does will endure forever; nothing can be added to it, and nothing taken away from it. God has made it this way, so that men will fear him.