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Ecclesiastes 1:7-9
Contemporary English Version
Ecclesiastes 1:7-9
Contemporary English Version
7 All rivers empty into the sea,
but it never spills over;
one by one the rivers return
to their source.[a]
8 All of life is far more boring
than words could ever say.
Our eyes and our ears
are never satisfied
with what we see and hear.
9 Everything that happens
has happened before;
nothing is new,
nothing under the sun.
Footnotes
- 1.7 return to their source: Or “flow into the sea.”
Ecclesiastes 1:7-9
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 1:7-9
New International Version
7 All streams flow into the sea,
yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
there they return again.(A)
8 All things are wearisome,
more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,(B)
nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again,
what has been done will be done again;(C)
there is nothing new under the sun.
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