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


In Context

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.

10 Is there anything of which one can say, "Look! This is something new"? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8All things [are] full of labour; man cannot utter [it:] the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

1:8All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

1:8All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

1:8All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

1:8All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

1:8All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.