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Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things weary themselves [constantly]; man can not utter them: the eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Leeser Tanakh

In The King James Version

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

In Context

7All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is never full: unto the place whither the rivers go, thither will they continue to go.

9That which hath been, is the same which will be; and that which hath been done, is the same which will be done; and there is nothing new under the sun.

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Cross References

Proverbs 27:20The nether world and the place of corruption are never satisfied: so are the eyes of man never satisfied.

Ecclesiastes 2:11But when I turned myself [to look] on all my works that my hands had wrought, and on the toil that I had toiled to accomplish: then, behold, all was vanity and a torture of the spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:1And I turned about, and beheld all the oppressed that are made so under the sun: and, behold, there are the tears of the oppressed, and they have no comforter; and from the hand of their oppressors they suffer violence; and they have no comforter.

Ecclesiastes 5:10(5:9) He that loveth money will never be satisfied with money; nor he that loveth abundance, with any increase. Also this is vanity.

Ecclesiastes 7:24Far is what formerly was so, and what was deep remaineth deep: who can find it out?

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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