◄ Ecclesiastes 1:7 ►
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Good News Translation
Every river flows into the sea, but the sea is not yet full. The water returns to where the rivers began, and starts all over again.

New Revised Standard Version
All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they continue to flow.

Contemporary English Version
All rivers empty into the sea, but it never spills over; one by one the rivers return to their source.

New American Bible
All rivers flow to the sea, yet never does the sea become full. To the place where they flow, the rivers continue to flow.

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.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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.

the rivers run

Job 38:10,11 I set my bounds around it, and made it bars and doors: . . .

Psalm 104:6-9 The deep like a garment is its clothing: above the mountains shall the waters stand. . . .

return again

Context
Everything is Futile
…6Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits. 7All 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.8All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.…
Cross References
Ecclesiastes 1:6
Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits.

Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 1:6
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