Ecclesiastes 1:10
King James Version
“Is there thing whereof it may be said, See, this new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.”
Context
7All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.
8All things full of labour; man cannot utter the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9The thing that hath been, it which shall be; and that which is done that which shall be done: and no new under the sun.
10Is there thing whereof it may be said, See, this new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
11no remembrance of former neither shall there be remembrance of that are to come with that shall come after.
12I the Preacher was king over Israel in Jerusalem.
13And I gave my heart to seek and search out by wisdom concerning all that are done under heaven: this sore travail hath God given to the sons of man to be exercised therewith.