Ecclesiastes 1:7

Ecclesiastes 1:7

5 ^aThe sun also rises, and¹ the sun goes down,
And hastens to the place where it arose.

6 ^aThe wind goes toward the south,
And turns around to the north;
The wind whirls about continually,
And comes again on its circuit.

7 ^aAll the rivers run into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full;
To the place from which the rivers come,
There they return again.

8 All things are¹ full of labor;
Man cannot express it.
^aThe eye is not satisfied with seeing,
Nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 ^aThat which has been is what will be,
That which is done is what will be done,
And there is nothing new under the sun.

Commentaries:

Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown

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By subterraneous cavities, and by evaporation forming rain clouds, the fountains and rivers are supplied from the sea, into which they then flow back. The connection is: Individual men are continually changing, while the succession of the race continues; just as the sun, wind, and rivers are ever shifting about, while the cycle in which they move is invariable; they return to the point whence they set out. Hence is man, as in these objects of nature which are his analogue, with all the seeming changes "there is no new thing" (Ecclesiastes 1:9).

**Other Jamieson, Fausset, and Brown entries containing Ecclesiastes 1:7:**

Genesis 1:9
Ecclesiastes 3:1

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