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


In Context

6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.

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.

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 Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:9What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.

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.