Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place from where the rivers come, there they go again.

A Conservative Version

In The King James Version

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.

In Context

6The 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.

8All things are full of weariness, man cannot utter [it]. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

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Cross References

Psalms 104:6Thou covered it with the deep as with a vesture. The waters stood above the mountains.

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 →

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