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Ecclesiastes 1:10
Ecclesiastes 1:10 is verse 10 of Ecclesiastes chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.
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.
“Behold”, from “\+wh הִנֵּה\+wh*”, means look at, take notice, observe, see, or gaze at. It is often used as an interjection.
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Ecclesiastes 1:8–12 · Berean Standard Bible
8 All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
9 What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.
11 There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Matthew 5:12Rejoice and be glad, because great is your reward in heaven; for in the same way they persecuted the prophets before you.
Matthew 23:30And 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.’
Matthew 23:31So you testify against yourselves that you are the sons of those who murdered the prophets.
Matthew 23:32Fill up, then, the measure of the sin of your fathers.
Luke 17:26Just as it was in the days of Noah, so also will it be in the days of the Son of Man:
Luke 17:27People were eating and drinking, marrying and being given in marriage, up to the day Noah entered the ark. Then the flood came and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:28It was the same in the days of Lot: People were eating and drinking, buying and selling, planting and building.
Luke 17:29But on the day Lot left Sodom, fire and sulfur rained down from heaven and destroyed them all.
Luke 17:30It will be just like that on the day the Son of Man is revealed.
Acts 7:51You stiff-necked people with uncircumcised hearts and ears! You always resist the Holy Spirit, just as your fathers did.
1 Thessalonians 2:14For 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,
1 Thessalonians 2:15who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out as well. They are displeasing to God and hostile to all men,
1 Thessalonians 2:16hindering us from telling the Gentiles how they may be saved. As a result, they continue to heap up their sins to full capacity; the utmost wrath has come upon them.
2 Timothy 3:8Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these men oppose the truth. They are depraved in mind and disqualified from the faith.