Text -- Ecclesiastes 1:9 (NET)

1:9 What exists now is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing truly new on earth.

Commentary -- Verse Notes / Footnotes

NET Notes: Ecc 1:9

¹ tn Heb “what is.” The Hebrew verbal form is a perfect. Another option is to translate, “What has been.” See the next line, which speaks of the past and the future.

² tn The Hebrew verbal form is an imperfect.

³ tn Heb “under the sun.”