Ecclesiastes 1:10
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Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us.

it hath

Matthew 5:12 Be glad and rejoice for your reward is very great in heaven. For so they persecuted the prophets that were before you.

Matthew 23:30-32 And say: If we had been in the days of our fathers, we would not have been partakers with them in the blood of the prophets. . . .

Luke 17:26-30 And as it came to pass in the days of Noe, so shall it be also in the days of the Son of man. . . .

Acts 7:51 You stiffnecked and uncircumcised in heart and ears, you always resist the Holy Ghost. As your fathers did, so do you also.

1 Thessalonians 2:14-16 For you, brethren, are become followers of the churches of God which are in Judea, in Christ Jesus: for you also have suffered the same things from your own countrymen, even as they have from the Jews: . . .

2 Timothy 3:8 Now as Jannes and Mambres resisted Moses, so these also resist the truth, men corrupted in mind, reprobate concerning the faith.

Context
Everything is Futile
9What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done. 10Nothing under the sun is new, neither is any man able to say: Behold this is new: for it hath already gone before in the ages that were before us.11There 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.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:9
What is it that hath been? the same thing that shall be. What is it that hath been done? the same that shall be done.

Ecclesiastes 1:11
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.

Ecclesiastes 2:12
I passed further to behold wisdom, and errors and folly, (What is man, said I that he can follow the King his maker?)

Lexicon
Is there [a case]
יֵ֥שׁ (yêš)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3426: Being, substance, existence, is

where one can say,
שֶׁיֹּאמַ֥ר (še·yō·mar)
Pronoun - relative | Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 559: To utter, say

“Look,
רְאֵה־ (rə·’êh-)
Verb - Qal - Imperative - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 7200: To see

this
זֶ֖ה (zeh)
Pronoun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2088: This, that

is new”?
חָדָ֣שׁ (ḥā·ḏāš)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2319: New

It
ה֑וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

has already
כְּבָר֙ (kə·ḇār)
Adverb
Strong's Hebrew 3528: Extent of time, a great while, long ago, formerly, hitherto

existed
הָיָ֣ה (hā·yāh)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1961: To fall out, come to pass, become, be

in the ages
לְעֹֽלָמִ֔ים (lə·‘ō·lā·mîm)
Preposition-l | Noun - masculine plural
Strong's Hebrew 5769: Concealed, eternity, frequentatively, always

before us.
מִלְּפָנֵֽנוּ׃ (mil·lə·p̄ā·nê·nū)
Preposition-m, Preposition-l | Noun - common plural construct | first person common plural
Strong's Hebrew 6440: The face


Additional Translations
Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it has been already of old time, which was before us.

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.

Who is he that shall speak and say, Behold, this is new? it has already been in the ages that have passed before us.

Is there a thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? It hath been already in the ages which were before us.

Is there a thing whereof men say, See, this is new? it hath been already, in the ages which were before us.

Is there any thing of which it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.

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.

There is a thing of which one saith: 'See this, it is new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!
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