(A)What has been is what will be,
    and what has been done is what will be done,
    and there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there a thing of which it is said,
    “See, this is new”?
It has been (B)already
    in the ages before us.
11 There is no (C)remembrance of former things,[a]
    nor will there be any remembrance
of later things[b] yet to be
    among those who come after.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:11 Or former people
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:11 Or later people

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)

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