Ecclesiastes 1:6
The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually in its course, and the wind returns again to its circuits.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
5The sun also arises, and the sun goes down and hastens to its place where it arises.
Cross References
Job 37:17How thy garments are warm when the earth is still because of the south [wind]?
Psalms 107:29He makes the storm a calm, so that the waves of it are still.
Jonah 1:4But LORD sent out a great wind upon the sea, and there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship was about to be broken.
Matthew 7:27And the rain descended, and the torrents came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house, and it fell. And great was the fall of it.
Acts 27:13And when a south wind blew gently, having presumed to have obtained their purpose, after taking up anchor, they sailed very near by Crete.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 1:5-9
The Vanity of the World. 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. 6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. 7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things are full of… Read the whole commentary →