Ecclesiastes 1:11
Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 The Message (MSG)
Smoke, nothing but smoke. [That’s what the Quester says.] There’s nothing to anything—it’s all smoke. What’s there to show for a lifetime of work, a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone? One generation goes its way, the next one arrives, but nothing changes—it’s business as usual for old planet earth. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, then does it again, and again—the same old round. The wind blows south, the wind blows north. Around and around and around it blows, blowing this way, then that—the whirling, erratic wind. All the rivers flow into the sea, but the sea never fills up. The rivers keep flowing to the same old place, and then start all over and do it again. Everything’s boring, utterly boring— no one can find any meaning in it. Boring to the eye, boring to the ear. What was will be again, what happened will happen again. There’s nothing new on this earth. Year after year it’s the same old thing. Does someone call out, “Hey, this is new”? Don’t get excited—it’s the same old story. Nobody remembers what happened yesterday. And the things that will happen tomorrow? Nobody’ll remember them either. Don’t count on being remembered.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 King James Version (KJV)
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.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
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.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 New Century Version (NCV)
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.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 Amplified Bible (AMP)
There is no remembrance of earlier things, Nor also of the later things that are to come; There will be for them no remembrance By generations who will come after them.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 New Living Translation (NLT)
We don’t remember what happened in the past, and in future generations, no one will remember what we are doing now.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 English Standard Version 2016 (ESV)
There is no remembrance of former things, nor will there be any remembrance of later things yet to be among those who come after.
Ecclesiastes 1:11 American Standard Version (ASV)
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.