Ecclesiastes 1:6
Going to the south, and turning around to the north, turning around, turning around, the wind is going, and by its circuits the wind has returned.
Literal Standard Version
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In Context
5Also, the sun has risen, and the sun has gone in, and to its place panting it is rising there.
Cross References
Job 37:17How your garments [are] warm, || In the quieting of the earth from the south?
Psalms 107:29He calms a whirlwind, || And their billows are hushed.
Jonah 1:4And YHWH has cast a great wind on the sea, and there is a great storm in the sea, and the ship has reckoned to be broken;
Matthew 7:27and the rain descended, and the streams came, and the winds blew, and they beat on that house, and it fell, and its fall was great.”
Acts 27:13and a south wind blowing softly, having thought they had obtained [their] purpose, having lifted anchor, they sailed close 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 →