Ecclesiastes 1:7
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New International Version (©1984)
All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.

New Living Translation (©2007)
Rivers run into the sea, but the sea is never full. Then the water returns again to the rivers and flows out again to the sea.

English Standard Version (©2001)
All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
All the rivers flow into the sea, Yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, There they flow again.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
All streams flow into the sea, but the sea is never full. The water goes back to the place where the streams began in order to [start] flowing again.

King James Bible
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.

American King James Version
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, thither they return again.

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

Bible in Basic English
All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.

Douay-Rheims Bible
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.

Darby Bible Translation
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full: unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

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

Webster's Bible Translation
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

World English Bible
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

Young's Literal Translation
All the streams are going unto the sea, and the sea is not full; unto a place whither the streams are going, thither they are turning back to go.

Geneva Study Bible

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from {f} which the rivers come, there they return again.

(f) The sea which compasses all the earth, fills the veins of it which pour out springs and rivers into the sea again.

Wesley's Notes

1:7 Is not full - So as to overflow the earth. Whereby also he intimates the emptiness of mens minds, notwithstanding all the abundance of creature comforts. Rivers come - Unto the earth in general, from whence they come or flow into the sea, and to which they return by the reflux of the sea. For he seems to speak of the visible and constant motion of the waters, both to the sea and from it, and then to it again in a perpetual reciprocation.

King James Translators' Notes

return...: Heb. return to go

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

7. By subterraneous cavities, and by evaporation forming rain clouds, the fountains and rivers are supplied from the sea, into which they then flow back. The connection is: Individual men are continually changing, while the succession of the race continues; just as the sun, wind, and rivers are ever shifting about, while the cycle in which they move is invariable; they return to the point whence they set out. Hence is man, as in these objects of nature which are his analogue, with all the seeming changes "there is no new thing" (Ec 1:9).

Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary

1:4-8 All things change, and never rest. Man, after all his labour, is no nearer finding rest than the sun, the wind, or the current of the river. His soul will find no rest, if he has it not from God. The senses are soon tired, yet still craving what is untried.


Ecclesiastes 1:6 Blowing toward the south, Then turning toward the north, The wind continues swirling along; And on its circular courses the wind returns.
Ecclesiastes 1:8 All things are wearisome; Man is not able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing. (NASB ©1995)

Flow Full Rivers Run Sea Streams Thither Turning Whence Whither

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.

the rivers run Job 38:10,11 Ps 104:6-9

return again

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