(8.) =All the words= (with the article, and therefore generic; ‘matters’ or ‘things,’ in the technical sense of things reasoned about, see verse 1) =are fatiguing= (so the LXX. and Vulgate; Ginsburg has ‘feeble;’ Preston, ‘in activity;’ and Hengstenberg, ‘all words become weary;’ but the ancient verses make better sense with the context), =not possible is it for a man= (not אדם here, but איש = ‘one,’ or ‘any one’) =to utter= them (לדבר, ‘to speak rationally concerning them,’ and so to account for their existence or explain their nature. The impossibility of exhausting a subject by talking or reasoning about it is here the point, as is evident from the order of the words); =not satisfied= (answering to the ‘not possible’ above) =is the eye with seeing, and not is filled the ear by sound= (or by what it hears). So then, while the consideration of any matter is pretty sure to produce weariness, it is quite certain not to produce satisfaction. 9 The thing that hath been, │ VI. Whatever has been? ’tis it _is that_ which shall be; │ just the same as will be; and and that which is done _is_ │ whatever has been done? ’tis that which shall be done: │ just the same as will be done. and _there is_ no new _thing_ │ So there is nothing altogether under the sun. │ new within this work-day world. (9.) =What is that which has been?= it =is the same which will be; and what is that which has been done?= it =is the same which will be done= (so the LXX., literally following the Heb. text), =and there is nothing all new under the sun.= The Authorized Version understands by this ‘no new thing;’ but the peculiar position of this word ‘all’ seems to imply that ‘nothing’ must be taken with some slight qualification,――nothing morally new. The next verse admits material novelty. 10 Is there _any_ thing │ VII. [No doubt] there occurs whereof it may be said, See, │ a matter such that people this _is_ new? it hath been │ _say_, See, now this is really already of old time, which was │ new. The present was it once before us. │ in some age before our time.