Ecclesiastes 1:7
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English Standard Version
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
All the rivers flow into the sea, Yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, There they flow 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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
All the streams flow to the sea, yet the sea is never full. The streams are flowing to the place, and they flow there again.

International Standard Version
All the rivers flow toward the sea, but the sea is never full; then rivers return to the headwaters where they began.

NET Bible
All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is not full, and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
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 2000 Bible
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from where the rivers come, there 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.

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.
Lexicon
All the rivers
nachal  (nakh'-al)
a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine) -- brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
run
halak  (haw-lak')
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
into the sea
yam  (yawm)
from an unused root meaning to roar -- sea (-faring man, (-shore), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
yet the sea
yam  (yawm)
from an unused root meaning to roar -- sea (-faring man, (-shore), south, west (-ern, side, -ward).
is not full
male'  (maw-lay')
full or filling (literally); also (concretely) fulness; adverbially, fully -- she that was with child, fill(-ed, -ed with), full(-ly), multitude, as is worth.
unto the place
maqowm  (maw-kome')
a standing, i.e. a spot; but used widely of a locality (general or specific); also (figuratively) of a condition (of body or mind)
from whence the rivers
nachal  (nakh'-al)
a stream, especially a winter torrent; (by implication) a (narrow) valley (in which a brook runs); also a shaft (of a mine) -- brook, flood, river, stream, valley.
come
halak  (haw-lak')
to walk (in a great variety of applications, literally and figuratively)
thither they return
shuwb  (shoob)
to turn back (hence, away) transitively or intransitively, literally or figuratively
again
yalak  (yaw-lak')
to walk; causatively, to carry (in various senses)
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