Ecclesiastes 1:10

Bible in Basic English (1941)

Is there anything of which men say, See, this is new? It has been in the old time which was before us.

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  • Matt 5:12 : 12 Be glad and full of joy; for great is your reward in heaven: for so were the prophets attacked who were before you.
  • Matt 23:30-32 : 30 If we had been living in the days of our fathers, we would not have taken part with them in the blood of the prophets. 31 So that you are witnesses against yourselves that you are the sons of those who put the prophets to death. 32 Make full, then, the measure of your fathers.
  • Luke 17:26-30 : 26 And as it was in the days of Noah, so will it be in the day of the Son of man. 27 They were feasting and taking wives and getting married, till the day of the overflowing of the waters, when Noah went into the ark, and they all came to destruction. 28 In the same way, in the days of Lot; they were feasting and trading, they were planting and building; 29 But on the day when Lot went out of Sodom, fire came down from heaven and destruction came on them all. 30 So will it be in the day of the revelation of the Son of man.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 You whose hearts are hard and whose ears are shut to me; you are ever working against the Holy Spirit; as your fathers did, so do you.
  • 1 Thess 2:14-16 : 14 For you, my brothers, took as your examples the churches of God which are in Judaea in Christ Jesus; because you underwent the same things from your countrymen as they did from the Jews; 15 Who put to death the Lord Jesus and the prophets, violently driving us out; who are unpleasing to God and against all men; 16 Who, to make the measure of their sins complete, kept us from giving the word of salvation to the Gentiles: but the wrath of God is about to come on them in the fullest degree.
  • 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 And as James and Jambres went against Moses, so do these go against what is true: men of evil minds, who, tested by faith, are seen to be false.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 1:8-9
    2 verses
    92%

    8All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.

    9That which has been, is that which is to be, and that which has been done, is that which will be done, and there is no new thing under the sun.

  • Eccl 1:11-15
    5 verses
    85%

    11There is no memory of those who have gone before, and of those who come after there will be no memory for those who are still to come after them.

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

    13And I gave my heart to searching out in wisdom all things which are done under heaven: it is a hard thing which God has put on the sons of men to do.

    14I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

    15That which is bent may not be made straight, and that which is not there may not be numbered.

  • Eccl 3:14-16
    3 verses
    83%

    14I am certain that whatever God does will be for ever. No addition may be made to it, nothing may be taken from it; and God has done it so that man may be in fear before him.

    15Whatever is has been before, and what is to be is now; because God makes search for the things which are past.

    16And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

  • Eccl 6:10-12
    3 verses
    76%

    10That which is, has been named before, and of what man is there is knowledge. He has no power against one stronger than he.

    11There are words without number for increasing what is to no purpose, but what is man profited by them?

    12Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 2:11-12
    2 verses
    76%

    11Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12And I went again in search of wisdom and of foolish ways. What may the man do who comes after the king? The thing which he has done before.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
    2 verses
    76%

    15I saw all the living under the sun round the young man who was to be ruler in place of the king.

    16There was no end of all the people, of all those whose head he was, but they who come later will have no delight in him. This again is to no purpose and desire for wind.

  • Eccl 1:1-5
    5 verses
    75%

    1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

    2All is to no purpose, said the Preacher, all the ways of man are to no purpose.

    3What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

    4One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.

    5The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.

  • Eccl 7:10
    74%

    10Say not, Why were the days which have gone by better than these? Such a question comes not from wisdom.

  • Eccl 4:2-3
    2 verses
    74%

    2So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

    3Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

  • Job 20:4
    74%

    4Have you knowledge of this from early times, when man was placed on the earth,

  • Eccl 3:10-12
    3 verses
    73%

    10I saw the work which God has put on the sons of man.

    11He has made everything right in its time; but he has made their hearts without knowledge, so that man is unable to see the works of God, from the first to the last.

    12I am certain that there is nothing better for a man than to be glad, and to do good while life is in him.

  • Eccl 3:1
    72%

    1For everything there is a fixed time, and a time for every business under the sun.

  • Deut 4:32
    72%

    32Give thought now to the days which are past, before your time, from the day when God first gave life to man on the earth, and searching from one end of heaven to the other, see if such a great thing as this has ever been, or if anything like it has been talked of in story.

  • Eccl 8:17
    72%

    17Then I saw all the work of God, and that man may not get knowledge of the work which is done under the sun; because, if a man gives hard work to the search he will not get knowledge, and even if the wise man seems to be coming to the end of his search, still he will be without knowledge.

  • Eccl 6:1
    72%

    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

  • Eccl 9:1
    71%

    1All this I took to heart, and my heart saw it all: that the upright and the wise and their works are in the hand of God; and men may not be certain if it will be love or hate; all is to no purpose before them.

  • Eccl 12:8
    71%

    8All things are to no purpose, says the Preacher, all is to no purpose.

  • Eccl 9:13
    71%

    13This again I have seen under the sun as wisdom and it seemed great to me.

  • Eccl 3:22
    71%

    22So I saw that there is nothing better than for a man to have joy in his work--because that is his reward. Who will make him see what will come after him?

  • Eccl 2:16
    71%

    16Of the wise man, as of the foolish man, there is no memory for ever, seeing that those who now are will have gone from memory in the days to come. See how death comes to the wise as to the foolish!

  • Eccl 9:3
    70%

    3This is evil in all things which are done under the sun: that there is one fate for all, and the hearts of the sons of men are full of evil; while they have life their hearts are foolish, and after that--to the dead.

  • Eccl 8:9-10
    2 verses
    70%

    9All this have I seen, and have given my heart to all the work which is done under the sun: there is a time when man has power over man for his destruction.

    10And then I saw evil men put to rest, taken even from the holy place; and they went about and were praised in the town because of what they had done. This again is to no purpose.

  • Isa 43:18
    70%

    18Give no thought to the things which are past; let the early times go out of your minds.

  • Eccl 4:7
    70%

    7Then I came back, and I saw an example of what is to no purpose under the sun.

  • Isa 42:9
    70%

    9See, the things said before have come about, and now I give word of new things: before they come I give you news of them.

  • 2 Pet 3:4
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    4Saying, Where is the hope of his coming? From the death of the fathers till now everything has gone on as it was from the making of the world.

  • Eccl 11:8
    69%

    8But even if a man's life is long and he has joy in all his years, let him keep in mind the dark days, because they will be great in number. Whatever may come is to no purpose.

  • Job 8:8
    69%

    8Put the question now to the past generations, and give attention to what has been searched out by their fathers:

  • Eccl 6:6
    69%

    6And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?

  • Ps 77:5
    69%

    5My thoughts go back to the days of the past, to the years which are gone.

  • Eccl 9:6
    69%

    6Their love and their hate and their envy are now ended; and they have no longer a part for ever in anything which is done under the sun.