כְּבָר

Is there a case where one can say,“Look, this is new”?It has already existedin the ages before us.

Then I turned to consider wisdom and madness and folly; for what more can the king’s successor do than what has already been accomplished?

For there is no lasting remembrance of the wise, just as with the fool, seeing that both will be forgotten in the days to come. Alas, the wise man will die just like the fool!

What exists has already been, and what will be has already been, for God will call to account what has passed.

So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.