Ecclesiastes 1:10
Ecclesiastes 1:10 New International Version (Anglicised) (NIVUK)
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.
Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 The Message (MSG)
Smoke, nothing but smoke. [That’s what the Quester says.] There’s nothing to anything—it’s all smoke. What’s there to show for a lifetime of work, a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone? One generation goes its way, the next one arrives, but nothing changes—it’s business as usual for old planet earth. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, then does it again, and again—the same old round. The wind blows south, the wind blows north. Around and around and around it blows, blowing this way, then that—the whirling, erratic wind. All the rivers flow into the sea, but the sea never fills up. The rivers keep flowing to the same old place, and then start all over and do it again. Everything’s boring, utterly boring— no one can find any meaning in it. Boring to the eye, boring to the ear. What was will be again, what happened will happen again. There’s nothing new on this earth. Year after year it’s the same old thing. Does someone call out, “Hey, this is new”? Don’t get excited—it’s the same old story. Nobody remembers what happened yesterday. And the things that will happen tomorrow? Nobody’ll remember them either. Don’t count on being remembered.
Ecclesiastes 1:10 King James Version (KJV)
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
Ecclesiastes 1:10 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
Is there anything of which one might say, “See this, it is new”? Already it has existed for ages Which were before us.
Ecclesiastes 1:10 New Century Version (NCV)
Someone might say, “Look, this is new,” but really it has always been here. It was here before we were.
Ecclesiastes 1:10 American Standard Version (ASV)
Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
Ecclesiastes 1:10 New King James Version (NKJV)
Is there anything of which it may be said, “See, this is new”? It has already been in ancient times before us.
Ecclesiastes 1:10 Amplified Bible (AMP)
Is there anything of which it can be said, “See this, it is new”? It has already existed for [the vast] ages [of time recorded or unrecorded] Which were before us.