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The Teacher points to repeating cycles in nature and human experience as evidence that patterns recur and people quickly forget what came before (Ecclesiastes 1:9–11). “Nothing new under the sun” is tied to the claim that memory fades and later generations do not remember earlier ones (Ecclesiastes 1:11).
9That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
11There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.