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Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of labor; 1 A man will not be able to speak of them: 1 Neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, 1 Neither shall the ear be filled with hearing. 1

Updated Brenton Septuagint

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; 1 And yet the sea is not filled: 1 To the place whence the rivers come, 1 Thither they return again. 1

9What is that which has been? the very thing which shall be: 1 And what is that which has been done? the very thing which shall be done: 1 And there is no new thing under the sun. 1

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Cross References

Proverbs 27:20a He that fixes his eye is an abomination to the Lord; 1 And the uninstructed do not restrain their tongue. 1

Ecclesiastes 2:11And I looked on all my works 1 Which my hands had wrought, 1 And on my labor which I labored to perform: 1 And, behold, all was vanity and waywardness of spirit, 1 And there is no advantage under the sun. 1

Ecclesiastes 4:1So I returned, 1 And saw all the oppressions 1 That were done under the sun: 1 And behold the tear of the oppressed, 1 And they had no comforter; 1 And on the side of them that oppressed them was power; 1 But they had no comforter: 1

Ecclesiastes 5:10In the multitude of good they are increased that eat it: 1 And what virtue has the owner, 1 But the right of beholding it with his eyes? 1

Ecclesiastes 7:24That which is far beyond what was, 1 And a great depth, who shall find it out? 1

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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