'Already' in the Bible
There is a thing [of] which it is said, "Look at this! This is new!" [But] it already existed in ages past before us.
Next, I considered wisdom, as well as delusion and folly. What can anyone [do] who will come after the king that has not already been done?
Certainly no one will remember the wise man or the fool in {future generations}. When [future] days come, both will have been forgotten already. How [is it that] the wise man dies the same as the fool?
What is--it already was, and what will be--it already is, for {God will do what he has done.}
So I deemed the dead who have already died more [fortunate] than the living who are still alive.
Whatever is--it was already determined, {what will be--it has already been decided}. As for man, he cannot argue against what is more powerful than him.
What they loved and hated, as well as what they desired, has already perished. They no longer have any share in what is done under the sun.
Go--eat your food with joy, and drink your wine with a merry heart! For God already has approved your deeds.
If you will not listen, and if you will not {take it to heart} to give glory to my name," says Yahweh of hosts, "then I will send the curse on you, and I will curse your blessings; moreover I have [already] cursed them because {you are not taking it to heart}.