Ecclesiastes 1:11 BSB

Ecclesiastes 1:11

There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

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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.

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.

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Commentary

1 voice

Adam Clarke

1762–1832

Commentary on the Bible (1832)

There is no remembrance - I believe the general meaning to be this: Multitudes of ancient transactions have been lost, because they were not recorded; and of many that have been recorded, the records are lost. And this will be the case with many others which are yet to occur. How many persons, not much acquainted with books, have supposed that certain things were their own discoveries, which have been written or printed even long before they were born! Dutens, in his Origin of the Discoveries attributed to the Moderns, has made a very clear case.

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Original language & word study

13 tagged words

Original	Transliteration	Meaning	Word study
אֵ֥ין	'ein	there not	H369 →
זִכְר֖וֹן	zikh.Ron	[is] remembrance	H2146 →
לָרִאשֹׁנִ֑ים	la.ri.sho.Nim	of the former [things]	H7223 →
וְגַ֨ם	ve.Gam	and also	H1571 →
לָאַחֲרֹנִ֜ים	la.'a.cha.ro.Nim	of the subsequent [things]	H314 →
שֶׁיִּהְי֗וּ	shei.yih.Yu	that they will be	H1961 →
לֹֽא־	lo'-	not	H3808 →
יִהְיֶ֤ה	yih.Yeh	it will be	H1961 →
לָהֶם֙	la.Hem	of <the> them
זִכָּר֔וֹן	zi.ka.Ron	remembrance	H2146 →
עִ֥ם	'im	with	H5973 →
שֶׁיִּהְי֖וּ	shei.yih.Yu	who <they> will be	H1961 →
לָאַחֲרֹנָֽה׃ פ	la.'a.cha.ro.Nah	to the later [time]	H314 →

Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.

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Where the connections lead

Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.

Through
Ecclesiastes 9:5
For the living know that they will die, but the dead know nothing. They have no further reward, because the memory of them is forgotten.
leads to
- Hebrews 9:27
  Just as man is appointed to die once, and after that to face judgment,
  Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
- Isaiah 26:14
  The dead will not live; the departed spirits will not rise. Therefore You have punished and destroyed them; You have wiped out all memory of them.
- Psalms 6:5
  For there is no mention of You in death; who can praise You from Sheol?
- Psalms 88:10–12
  Do You work wonders for the dead? Do departed spirits rise up to praise You? Selah
- Job 14:21
  If his sons receive honor, he does not know it; if they are brought low, he is unaware.
Through
Isaiah 42:9
Behold, the former things have happened, and now I declare new things. Before they spring forth I proclaim them to you.”
leads to
- Isaiah 43:19
  Behold, I am about to do something new; even now it is coming. Do you not see it? Indeed, I will make a way in the wilderness and streams in the desert.
- Isaiah 46:9–10
  Remember what happened long ago, for I am God, and there is no other; I am God, and there is none like Me.
- John 13:19
  I am telling you now before it happens, so that when it comes to pass, you will believe that I am He.

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06About Ecclesiastes

Where the connections lead

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The walk

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