Commentaries:Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown
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Ecclesiastes 1:10
old time—Hebrew, "ages."
which was—The Hebrew plural cannot be joined to the verb singular. Therefore translate: "It hath been in the ages before; certainly it hath been before us" [HOLDEN]. Or, as MAURER: "That which has been (done) before us (in our presence, I Chronicles 16:33), has been (done) already in the old times."
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