Ecclesiastes 1:10

Webster's Bible (1833)

Is 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.

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  • Matt 5:12 : 12 Rejoice, and be exceedingly glad, for great is your reward in heaven. For that is how they persecuted the prophets who were before you.
  • Matt 23:30-32 : 30 and say, 'If we had lived in the days of our fathers, we wouldn't have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets.' 31 Therefore you testify to yourselves that you are children of those who killed the prophets. 32 Fill up, then, the measure of your fathers.
  • Luke 17:26-30 : 26 As it happened in the days of Noah, even so will it be also in the days of the Son of Man. 27 They ate, they drank, they married, they were given in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark, and the flood came, and destroyed them all. 28 Likewise, even as it happened in the days of Lot: they ate, they drank, they bought, they sold, they planted, they built; 29 but in the day that Lot went out from Sodom, it rained fire and sulfur from the sky, and destroyed them all. 30 It will be the same way in the day that the Son of Man is revealed.
  • Acts 7:51 : 51 "You stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Spirit! As your fathers did, so you do.
  • 1 Thess 2:14-16 : 14 For you, brothers, became imitators of the assemblies of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus; for you also suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they did from the Jews; 15 who killed both the Lord Jesus and their own prophets, and drove us out, and didn't please God, and are contrary to all men; 16 forbidding us to speak to the Gentiles that they may be saved; to fill up their sins always. But wrath has come on them to the uttermost.
  • 2 Tim 3:8 : 8 Even as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so do these also oppose the truth; men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

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    8All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

    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.

  • Eccl 1:11-15
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    11There is no memory of the former; neither shall there be any memory of the latter that are to come, among those that shall come after.

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

    13I applied my heart to seek and to search out by wisdom concerning all that is done under the sky. It is a heavy burden that God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

    15That which is crooked can't be made straight; and that which is lacking can't be counted.

  • Eccl 3:14-16
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    14I know that whatever God does, it shall be forever. Nothing can be added to it, nor anything taken from it; and God has done it, that men should fear before him.

    15That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.

    16Moreover I saw under the sun, in the place of justice, that wickedness was there; and in the place of righteousness, that wickedness was there.

  • Eccl 6:10-12
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    10Whatever has been, its name was given long ago; and it is known what man is; neither can he contend with him who is mightier than he.

    11For there are many words that create vanity. What does that profit man?

    12For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends like a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 2:11-12
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    11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

    12I turned myself to consider wisdom, madness, and folly: for what can the king's successor do? Just that which has been done long ago.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
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    15I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.

    16There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • Eccl 1:1-5
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    1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:

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

    3What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

    4One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.

    5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

  • Eccl 7:10
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    10Don't say, "Why were the former days better than these?" For you do not ask wisely about this.

  • Eccl 4:2-3
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    2Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

    3Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Job 20:4
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    4Don't you know this from old time, Since man was placed on earth,

  • Eccl 3:10-12
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    10I have seen the burden which God has given to the sons of men to be afflicted with.

    11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

    12I know that there is nothing better for them than to rejoice, and to do good as long as they live.

  • Eccl 3:1
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    1For everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

  • Deut 4:32
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    32For ask now of the days that are past, which were before you, since the day that God created man on the earth, and from the one end of the sky to the other, whether there has been [any such thing] as this great thing is, or has been heard like it?

  • Eccl 8:17
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    17then I saw all the work of God, that man can't find out the work that is done under the sun, because however much a man labors to seek it out, yet he won't find it. Yes even though a wise man thinks he can comprehend it, he won't be able to find it.

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

  • Eccl 9:1
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    1For all this I laid to my heart, even to explore all this: that the righteous, and the wise, and their works, are in the hand of God; whether it is love or hatred, man doesn't know it; all is before them.

  • Eccl 12:8
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    8Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher; All is vanity!

  • Eccl 9:13
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    13I have also seen wisdom under the sun in this way, and it seemed great to me.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22Therefore I saw that there is nothing better, than that a man should rejoice in his works; for that is his portion: for who can bring him to see what will be after him?

  • Eccl 2:16
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    16For of the wise man, even as of the fool, there is no memory for ever, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. Indeed, the wise man must die just like the fool!

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3This is an evil in all that is done under the sun, that there is one event to all: yes 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 8:9-10
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    9All this have I seen, and applied my mind to every work that is done under the sun. There is a time in which one man has power over another to his hurt.

    10So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.

  • Isa 43:18
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    18Don't remember the former things, neither consider the things of old.

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7Then I returned and saw vanity under the sun.

  • Isa 42:9
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    9Behold, the former things have happened, and new things do I declare. Before they spring forth I tell you of them.

  • 2 Pet 3:4
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    4and saying, "Where is the promise of his coming? For, from the day that the fathers fell asleep, all things continue as they were from the beginning of the creation."

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; But let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Job 8:8
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    8"Please inquire of past generations, Find out about the learning of their fathers.

  • Eccl 6:6
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    6Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don't all go to one place?

  • Ps 77:5
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    5I have considered the days of old, The years of ancient times.

  • Eccl 9:6
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    6Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.