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.


In Context

4 A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.

5 Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.

6 Going unto the south, and turning round unto the north, turning round, turning round, the wind is going, and by its circuits the wind hath returned.

7 All 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.

8 All 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.

9 What is that which hath been? it is that which is, and what is that which hath been done? it is that which is done, and there is not an entirely 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 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 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.