Ecclesiastes 1:7

Bible in Basic English (1941)

All the rivers go down to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the rivers go, there they go again.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:10-11 : 10 Ordering a fixed limit for it, with locks and doors; 11 And said, So far you may come, and no farther; and here the pride of your waves will be stopped?
  • Ps 104:6-9 : 6 Covering it with the sea as with a robe: the waters were high over the mountains; 7 At the voice of your word they went in flight; at the sound of your thunder they went away in fear; 8 The mountains came up and the valleys went down into the place which you had made ready for them. 9 You made a limit over which they might not go, so that the earth would never again be covered by them.

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