Devine Scripture

Ecclesiastes 1:8

Ecclesiastes chapter 1 · verse 8 in three public-domain English translations with cross-references

Parallel translations

WEB

World English Bible · 2000

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

KJV

King James Version · 1611

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

ASV

American Standard Version · 1901

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

Context

v.7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

v.8This passage

v.9That which hath been is that which shall be; and that which hath been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

Cross references

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

  • Revelation 7:16

    They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun strike upon them, nor any heat:

  • Ecclesiastes 4:8

    There is one that is alone, and he hath not a second; yea, he hath neither son nor brother; yet is there no end of all his labor, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches. For whom then, saith he, do I labor, and deprive my soul of good? This also is vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.

  • Romans 8:22

    For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now.

  • Ecclesiastes 2:11

    Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labor that I had labored to do; and, behold, all was vanity and a striving after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Matthew 5:6

    Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after righteousness: for they shall be filled.

  • Proverbs 27:20

    Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; And the eyes of man are never satisfied.