[a]What is it that hath been? that that shall be: and what is it that hath been done? that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

10 Is there anything, whereof one may say, Behold this, it is new? it hath been already in the old time that was before us.

11 There is no memory of the former, neither shalt there be a remembrance of the latter that shall be, with them that shall come after.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:9 He speaketh of times and seasons, and things done in them, which as they have been in times past, so come they to pass again.

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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