Ecclesiastes 1:7

King James Version 1611 (Original)

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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:10-11 : 10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, 11 And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
  • Ps 104:6-9 : 6 Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. 7 At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away. 8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them. 9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

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