World English Bible
Ecclesiastes 1:7
“All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 1
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The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
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The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.
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All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
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All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
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That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
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