Ecclesiastes 1:7

In 11 translations

BSB

All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.

KJV

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.return…: Heb. return to go

WEB

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

ASV

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

LSV

All the streams are going to the sea, and the sea is not full; to a place to where the streams are going, there they are turning back to go.

YLT

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.

DBY

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full: unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

DRC

All 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.

GNV

All the riuers goe into the sea, yet the sea is not full: for the riuers goe vnto ye place, whence they returne, and goe.

JPS

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

LXXE

All the rivers run into the sea; and yet the sea is not filled: to the place whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC

כָּל־הַנְּחָלִים֙ הֹלְכִ֣ים אֶל־הַיָּ֔ם וְהַיָּ֖ם אֵינֶ֣נּוּ מָלֵ֑א אֶל־מְק֗וֹם שֶׁ֤הַנְּחָלִים֙ הֹֽלְכִ֔ים שָׁ֛ם הֵ֥ם שָׁבִ֖ים לָלָֽכֶת׃

LXX-Br

Πάντες οἱ χείμαῤῥοι πορεύονται εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, καὶ ἡ θάλασσα οὐκ ἔστιν ἐμπιμπλαμένη· εἰς τὸν τόπον οὗ οἱ χείμαῤῥοι πορεύονται, ἐκεῖ αὐτοὶ ἐπιστρέφουσι τοῦ πορευθῆναι.

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

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Cross-references most cited first

• Job 38:10–11when I fixed its boundaries and set in place its bars and doors, and I declared: ‘You may come this far, but no farther; here your proud waves must stop’?
• Psalms 104:6–9You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. At Your rebuke the waters fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away— the mountains rose and the valleys sank to the place…

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