A moment in scripture
Ecclesiastes 1:10
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Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
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The surrounding passage
- Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
- Ecclesiastes 1:9
The 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.
- Ecclesiastes 1:11
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.
- Ecclesiastes 1:12
I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.