Ecclesiastes 1:10 “Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already…”

Ecclesiastes 1:10

Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.

Berean Standard Bible

Other translations

King James Version

Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

World English Bible

Is 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.

American Standard Version

Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

Geneva Bible 1599

Is there any thing, whereof one may say, Beholde this, it is newe? it hath bene already in the olde time that was before vs.

Darby Translation

Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already in the ages which were before us.

Young's Literal Translation

There is a thing of which [one] saith: 'See this, it [is] new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

Bible in Basic English

Is there anything of which men say, See, this is new? It has been in the old time which was before us.

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Cross references

“it hath”

Acts 7:51 Matthew 23:30–32 Luke 17:26–30 Matthew 5:12 2 Timothy 3:8 1 Thessalonians 2:14–16

Acts 7:51 · BSB

You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.

Matthew 23:30–32 · BSB

And you say, ‘If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partners with them in shedding the blood of the prophets.’

Luke 17:26–30 · BSB

Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:

Matthew 5:12 · BSB

Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven, for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.

2 Timothy 3:8 · BSB

Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.

1 Thessalonians 2:14–16 · BSB

For you, brothers, became imitators of the churches of God in Judea that are in Christ Jesus. You suffered from your own countrymen the very things they suffered from the Jews,

Cross references adapted from OpenBible.info (CC BY 4.0) and the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

In context

9What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

11There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

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