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Ecclesiastes 1:11
Ecclesiastes 1:11 is verse 11 of Ecclesiastes chapter 1, shown here in the Berean Standard Bible.
Berean Standard Bible
There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
King James Version
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be any remembrance of things that are to come with those that shall come after.
World English Bible
There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.
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Ecclesiastes 1:9–13 · Berean Standard Bible
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.
13 And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
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Cross-references
The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge lists these related verses. Scripture text comes from the Berean Standard Bible.
Ecclesiastes 2:16For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!
Psalms 9:6The enemy has come to eternal ruin, and You have uprooted their cities; the very memory of them has vanished.
Isaiah 41:22“Let them come and tell us what will happen. Tell the former things, so that we may reflect on them and know the outcome. Or announce to us what is coming.
Isaiah 41:23Tell us the things that are to come, so that we may know that you are gods. Yes, do something good or evil, that we may look on together in dismay.
Isaiah 41:24Behold, you are nothing and your work is of no value. Anyone who chooses you is detestable.
Isaiah 41:25I have raised up one from the north, and he has come— one from the east who calls on My name. He will march over rulers as if they were mortar, like a potter who treads the clay.
Isaiah 41:26Who has declared this from the beginning, so that we may know, and from times past, so that we may say: ‘He was right’? No one announced it, no one foretold it, no one heard your words.
Isaiah 42:9Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”