Ecclesiastes 1:7

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All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place where the streams come from, there they return again.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:10-11 : 10 when I set its boundary and placed bars and doors on it, 11 and said, 'This far you may come, but no farther; here is where your proud waves must halt.'
  • Ps 104:6-9 : 6 You covered it with the deep like a garment; the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At Your rebuke they fled; at the sound of Your thunder they hurried away. 8 The mountains rose, the valleys went down to the place You established for them. 9 You set a boundary they cannot cross; they will never again cover the earth.

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