OLD TESTAMENT · VERSE 7

Ecclesiastes 1:7

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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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Ecclesiastes 1:4–10

4

One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.

5

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

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.

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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.

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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