10Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.


In Context

7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.

8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; 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 There is no remembrance of men of old, and even those who are yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow.

12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 1:10 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:10Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, See, this [is] new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:10Nothing 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:10Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:10Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already in the ages which were before us.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:10Is there a thing whereof men say, See, this is new? it hath been already, in the ages which were before us.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:10Is there any thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:10Is 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.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:10There is a thing of which one saith: 'See this, it is new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:10Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time, which was before us.