Bible verse

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.

Ecclesiastes 1:7 · BSB

Ecclesiastes 1:7 in context

The verses around it, from Ecclesiastes 1.

3 What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?

4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

5 The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.

6 The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.

7 All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.

8 All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

9 What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

10 Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.

11 There is no remembrance of those who came before, and those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow after.

Read all of Ecclesiastes 1

Ecclesiastes 1:7 in other translations

KJV

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.

ASV

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

ERV

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

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