World English Bible
Ecclesiastes 1:8
“All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 1
6
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.
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.
8
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9
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.
10
Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.
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