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Chinese NCV (Simplified)

有甚麼事人可以說：“看啊！這是新的”？其實，很久之前已經有了，在我們之前早就有了。

Parallel Translations

Chinese Union (Simplified)
岂 有 一 件 事 人 能 指 着 说 这 是 新 的 ？ 哪 知 ， 在 我 们 以 前 的 世 代 早 已 有 了 。

Contextual Overview

⁹ All things continue the way they have been since the beginning. What has happened will happen again; there is nothing new here on earth. ¹⁰ Someone might say, "Look, this is new," but really it has always been here. It was here before we were. ¹¹ People don't remember what happened long ago, and in the future people will not remember what happens now. Even later, other people will not remember what was done before them.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

it hath: Matthew 5:12, Matthew 23:30-32, Luke 17:26-30, Acts 7:51, 1 Thessalonians 2:14-16, 2 Timothy 3:8

Reciprocal: Exodus 7:1 - See Proverbs 20:14 - It is naught Ecclesiastes 3:15 - which hath

Cross-References

Genesis 1:4
God saw that the light was good, so he divided the light from the darkness.

Deuteronomy 32:4
He is like a rock; what he does is perfect, and he is always fair. He is a faithful God who does no wrong, who is right and fair.

Psalms 104:31
May the glory of the Lord be forever. May the Lord enjoy what he has made.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

Is there [any] thing whereof it may be said, see, this [is] new?.... This is an appeal to all men for the truth of the above observation, and carries in it a strong denial that there is anything new under the sun; and is an address to men to inquire into the truth of it, and thoroughly examine it, and see if they can produce any material objection to it; look into the natural world, and the same natural causes will be seen producing the same effects; or into the moral world, and there are the same virtues, and their contrary; or into the political world, and the same schemes are forming and pursuing, and which issue in the same things, peace or war; or into the learned world, and the same languages, arts, and sciences, are taught and learned; and the same things said over again i: or into the mechanic world, and the same trades and businesses are carrying on: or the words may be considered as a concession, and carry in them the form of an objection, "there is a thing k whereof it may be said", or a man may say, "see, this is new"; so the Targum; there were some things in Solomon's time it is allowed that might be objected, as there are in ours, to which the answer is,

it hath been already of old time which was before us; what things are reckoned new are not so; they were known and in use in ages past, long before we had a being. R. Alshech takes the words to be an assertion, and not an interrogation, and interprets it of a spiritual temple in time to come, which yet was created before the world was.

i "Nullum est jam dictum, quod non dictum sit prius", Terent Prolog. Eunuch. v. 41. k יש דבר "est quidpiam", Pagninus, Mercerus, Gejerus; "est res", Drusius, Cocceius, Rambachius.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 1:10. Is there any thing, c. — The original is beautiful. "Is there any thing which will say, See this! it is new?" Men may say this of their discoveries, &c. but universal nature says, It is not new. It has been, and it will be.