9What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.


In Context

6 Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits.

7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.

8 All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.

9 What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.

10 Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us.

11 There is no remembrance of former things: nor indeed of those things which hereafter are to come, shall there be any remembrance with them that shall be in the latter end.

Ecclesiastes 1:9 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:9The thing that hath been, it [is that] which shall be; and that which is done [is] that which shall be done: and [there is] no new [thing] under the sun.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:9What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:9That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which will be done: and there is nothing new under the sun.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:9That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:9What is that which hath been? it is that which is, and what is that which hath been done? it is that which is done, and there is not an entirely new thing under the sun.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:9The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.