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


In Context

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.

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.

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 New International Version of the Holy Bible

1:7All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there 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 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.