Ecclesiastes 1:11 No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

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Parallel Verses

New International Version
No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

English Standard Version
There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.

New American Standard Bible
There is no remembrance of earlier things; And also of the later things which will occur, There will be for them no remembrance Among those who will come later still.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
There is no remembrance of those who came before; and of those who will come after there will also be no remembrance by those who follow them.

International Standard Version
No one remembers those in the past, nor will they be remembered by those who come after them.

American Standard Version
There is no remembrance of the former generations ; neither shall there be any remembrance of the latter generations that are to come, among those that shall come after.

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is no remembrance of former things: nor indeed of those things which hereafter are to come, shall there be any remembrance with them that shall be in the latter end.

Darby Bible Translation
There is no remembrance of former things; neither shall there be remembrance of things that are to come with those who shall live afterwards.

Young's Literal Translation
There is not a remembrance of former generations; and also of the latter that are, there is no remembrance of them with those that are at the last.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 1:10
Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time, which was before us.

Ecclesiastes 2:16
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 dies the wise man? as the fool.

Ecclesiastes 8:10
And 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.

Ecclesiastes 9:5
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.

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Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:9-11 Men's hearts and their corruptions are the same now as in former times; their desires, and pursuits, and complaints, still the same. This should take us from expecting happiness in the creature, and quicken us to seek eternal blessings. How many things and persons in Solomon's day were thought very great, yet there is no remembrance of them now!

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

11. The reason why some things are thought "new," which are not really so, is the imperfect record that exists of preceding ages among their successors.

those that … come after—that is, those that live still later than the "things, rather the persons or generations, Ec 1:4, with which this verse is connected, the six intermediate verses being merely illustrations of Ec 1:4 [Weiss], that are to come" (Ec 2:16; 9:5).