Ecclesiastes 1:7
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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11 As the waters fail from the sea, and the flood decayeth and drieth up:
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7 Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it.
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20 All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again.
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15 That which is crooked cannot be made straight: and that which is wanting cannot be numbered.
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9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
10 He sendeth the springs into the valleys, which run among the hills.
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16 Let thy fountains be dispersed abroad, and rivers of waters in the streets.
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16 And this also is a sore evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?
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3 If the clouds be full of rain, they empty themselves upon the earth: and if the tree fall toward the south, or toward the north, in the place where the tree falleth, there it shall be.
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4 He rebuketh the sea, and maketh it dry, and drieth up all the rivers: Bashan languisheth, and Carmel, and the flower of Lebanon languisheth.
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16 There is no end of all the people, even of all that have been before them: they also that come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.
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10 For as the rain cometh down, and the snow from heaven, and returneth not thither, but watereth the earth, and maketh it bring forth and bud, that it may give seed to the sower, and bread to the eater:
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10 He hath compassed the waters with bounds, until the day and night come to an end.
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11 Doth a fountain send forth at the same place sweet water and bitter?
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9 The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.
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5 And the waters shall fail from the sea, and the river shall be wasted and dried up.
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14 The depth saith, It is not in me: and the sea saith, It is not with me.
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5 What ailed thee, O thou sea, that thou fleddest? thou Jordan, that thou wast driven back?
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25 So is this great and wide sea, wherein are things creeping innumerable, both small and great beasts.
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16 When he uttereth his voice, there is a multitude of waters in the heavens; and he causeth the vapours to ascend from the ends of the earth: he maketh lightnings with rain, and bringeth forth the wind out of his treasures.
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17 Then I beheld all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun: bause though a man labour to seek it out, yet he shall not find it; yea further; though a wise man think to know it, yet shall he not be able to find it.
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2 Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.
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1 Cast thy bread upon the waters: for thou shalt find it after many days.
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32 Let the sea roar, and the fulness thereof: let the fields rejoice, and all that is therein.
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14 For the earth shall be filled with the knowledge of the glory of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea.