Ecclesiastes 1:11

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Eccl 2:16 : 16 For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.
  • Eccl 9:5 : 5 For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.
  • Isa 41:22-26 : 22 Let them bring them forth, and shew us what shall happen: let them shew the former things, what they be, that we may consider them, and know the latter end of them; or declare us things for to come. 23 Shew the things that are to come hereafter, that we may know that ye are gods: yea, do good, or do evil, that we may be dismayed, and behold it together. 24 Behold, ye are of nothing, and your work of nought: an abomination is he that chooseth you. 25 I have raised up one from the north, and he shall come: from the rising of the sun shall he call upon my name: and he shall come upon princes as upon morter, and as the potter treadeth clay. 26 Who hath declared from the beginning, that we may know? and beforetime, that we may say, He is righteous? yea, there is none that sheweth, yea, there is none that declareth, yea, there is none that heareth your words.
  • Isa 42:9 : 9 Behold, the former things are come to pass, and new things do I declare: before they spring forth I tell you of them.
  • Ps 9:6 : 6 O thou enemy, destructions are come to a perpetual end: and thou hast destroyed cities; their memorial is perished with them.

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 1:8-10
    3 verses
    85%

    8All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

    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.

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

  • Eccl 4:15-16
    2 verses
    81%

    15I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

    16There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 2:16-19
    4 verses
    79%

    16For there is no remembrance of the wise more than of the fool for ever; seeing that which now is in the days to come shall all be forgotten. And how dieth the wise man? as the fool.

    17Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

    18Yea, I hated all my labour which I had taken under the sun: because I should leave it unto the man that shall be after me.

    19And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise man or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This is also vanity.

  • Eccl 3:14-15
    2 verses
    77%

    14I know that, whatsoever God doeth, it shall be for ever: nothing can be put to it, nor any thing taken from it: and God doeth it, that men should fear before him.

    15That which hath been is now; and that which is to be hath already been; and God requireth that which is past.

  • Eccl 9:5-6
    2 verses
    76%

    5For the living know that they shall die: but the dead know not any thing, neither have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

    6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion for ever in any thing that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 1:1-5
    5 verses
    75%

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

    2Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

    3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

    4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

    5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

  • Isa 43:18
    75%

    18Remember ye not the former things, neither consider the things of old.

  • Eccl 2:11-12
    2 verses
    73%

    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12And I turned myself to behold wisdom, and madness, and folly: for what can the man do that cometh after the king? even that which hath been already done.

  • Eccl 1:14-15
    2 verses
    73%

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

    15That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.

  • Eccl 4:2-3
    2 verses
    72%

    2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

    3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 1:12
    72%

    12I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.

  • Eccl 6:10-12
    3 verses
    72%

    10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it is man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

    11Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what is man the better?

    12For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 8:17
    71%

    17Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: because though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.

  • Eccl 7:10
    71%

    10Say not thou, What is the cause that the former days were better than these? for thou dost not enquire wisely concerning this.

  • Eccl 8:10
    71%

    10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this is also vanity.

  • Eccl 12:8
    71%

    8Vanity of vanities, saith the preacher; all is vanity.

  • Eccl 12:1
    70%

    1Remember now thy Creator in the days of thy youth, while the evil days come not, nor the years draw nigh, when thou shalt say, I have no pleasure in them;

  • Eccl 3:22
    70%

    22Wherefore I perceive that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his own works; for that is his portion: for who shall bring him to see what shall be after him?

  • Eccl 11:8
    70%

    8But if a man live many years, and rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh is vanity.

  • Isa 65:17
    70%

    17For, behold, I create new heavens and a new earth: and the former shall not be remembered, nor come into mind.

  • Eccl 3:11-12
    2 verses
    70%

    11He hath made every thing beautiful in his time: also he hath set the world in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God maketh from the beginning to the end.

    12I know that there is no good in them, but for a man to rejoice, and to do good in his life.

  • Ps 103:16
    70%

    16For the wind passeth over it, and it is gone; and the place thereof shall know it no more.

  • Eccl 9:1
    70%

    1For all this I considered in my heart even to declare all this, that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God: no man knoweth either love or hatred by all that is before them.

  • Eccl 8:7
    69%

    7For he knoweth not that which shall be: for who can tell him when it shall be?

  • Eccl 4:8
    69%

    8There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

  • Eccl 6:5-6
    2 verses
    69%

    5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

    6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

  • Eccl 3:19
    69%

    19For that which befalleth the sons of men befalleth beasts; even one thing befalleth them: as the one dieth, so dieth the other; yea, they have all one breath; so that a man hath no preeminence above a beast: for all is vanity.

  • Job 14:12
    69%

    12So man lieth down, and riseth not: till the heavens be no more, they shall not awake, nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • Job 7:9
    69%

    9As the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no more.

  • Eccl 9:3
    69%

    3This is an evil among all things that are done under the sun, that there is one event unto all: yea, also the heart of the sons of men is full of evil, and madness is in their heart while they live, and after that they go to the dead.

  • Eccl 5:16
    68%

    16And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?