10 There is a thing of which 'one' saith: 'See this, it 'is' new!' already it hath been in the ages that were before us!

Matthew Henry's Commentary on Ecclesiastes 1:10

Commentary on Ecclesiastes 1:9-11

(Read Ecclesiastes 1:9-11)

Men's hearts and their corruptions are the same now as in former times; their desires, and pursuits, and complaints, still the same. This should take us from expecting happiness in the creature, and quicken us to seek eternal blessings. How many things and persons in Solomon's day were thought very great, yet there is no remembrance of them now!