Ecclesiastes 1:7

Ecclesiastes chapter 1 · verse 7 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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.

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

Context

v.6The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it turneth about continually in its course, and the wind returneth again to its circuits.

v.7This passage

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

Cross references

Related passages from across Scripture, drawn from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

  • Job 38:10

    And marked out for it my bound, And set bars and doors,