7All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.


In Context

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

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

6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.

7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.

8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.

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

Ecclesiastes 1:7 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:7All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:7All 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.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full: unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:7All 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.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:7All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, thither they return again.