Ecclesiastes 1:11 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

¹¹ The people of long ago are not remembered, nor will there be any remembrance of people yet to come by those who come after them.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

¹¹ 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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

¹¹ There is no remembrance of former happenings or men, neither will there be any remembrance of happenings of generations that are to come by those who are to come after them.

American Standard Version (1901)

¹¹ 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.

Common English Bible

¹¹ There’s no remembrance of things in the past, nor of things to come in the future. Neither will there be any remembrance among those who come along in the future.

Catholic Public Domain Version

¹¹ There is no remembrance of the former things. Indeed, neither shall there be any record of past things in the future, for those who will exist at the very end.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

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 1:11 Cross References

Psalm 9:6

The enemies have vanished in everlasting ruins; their cities you have rooted out; the very memory of them has perished.

Ecclesiastes 1:10

Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has already been in the ages before us.

Ecclesiastes 2:16

For there is no enduring remembrance of the wise or of fools, seeing that in the days to come all will have been long forgotten. How can the wise die just like fools?

Ecclesiastes 8:10

Then I saw the wicked approaching to sacrifice; they go in and out of the holy place, and they boast in the city that they have done such things. This also is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 9:5

The living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing; they have no more reward, and even the memory of them is lost.

Isaiah 42:9

See, the former things have come to pass, and new things I now declare; before they spring forth, I tell you of them.