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All things[a] are wearisome
    and very difficult to express.
The eyes are not satisfied with seeing
    and the ears do not have their fill of hearing.
What has been will be so again,
    and what has been done will be done again;
    there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Whatever is perceived to be new
    has already existed in the ages before us.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things: or “words,” i.e., everything mentioned in verses 4-7.

All things are wearisome,
    more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,(A)
    nor the ear its fill of hearing.
What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;(B)
    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.

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