Add parallel Print Page Options

All rivers flow to the sea,
    yet never does the sea become full.
To the place where they flow,
    the rivers continue to flow.
All things are wearisome,[a]
    too wearisome for words.
The eye is not satisfied by seeing
    nor has the ear enough of hearing.(A)

What has been, that will be; what has been done, that will be done. Nothing is new under the sun!(B)

Read full chapter

Footnotes

  1. 1:8 All things are wearisome: or, “All speech is wearisome.”

All streams flow into the sea,
    yet the sea is never full.
To the place the streams come from,
    there they return again.(A)
All things are wearisome,
    more than one can say.
The eye never has enough of seeing,(B)
    nor the ear its fill of hearing.
What has been will be again,
    what has been done will be done again;(C)
    there is nothing new under the sun.

Read full chapter