Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
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, 1 Chronicles 16:33), has been (done) already in the old times.'