Bible verse
What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 · BSB
The verses around it, from Ecclesiastes 1.
5 The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.
7 All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.
8 All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
9 What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.
11 There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.
12 I, the Teacher, was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13 And I set my mind to seek and explore by wisdom all that is done under heaven. What a heavy burden God has laid upon the sons of men to occupy them!
KJV
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.
ASV
That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
ERV
That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
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