Ecclesiastes 1:6
The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns.
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- John 3:8 : 8 The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
- Acts 27:13-15 : 13 When a gentle south wind sprang up, they thought they could carry out their purpose, so they weighed anchor and sailed close along the coast of Crete. 14 Not long after this, a hurricane-force wind called the northeaster blew down from the island. 15 When the ship was caught in it and could not head into the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.
- Job 37:9 : 9 A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds.
- Job 37:17 : 17 You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,
- Ps 107:25 : 25 He gave the order for a windstorm, and it stirred up the waves of the sea.
- Ps 107:29 : 29 He calmed the storm, and the waves grew silent.
- Eccl 11:5 : 5 Just as you do not know the path of the wind, or how the bones form in the womb of a pregnant woman, so you do not know the work of God who makes everything.
- Jonah 1:4 : 4 But the LORD hurled a powerful wind on the sea. Such a violent tempest arose on the sea that the ship threatened to break up!
- Matt 7:24 : 24 Hearing and Doing“Everyone who hears these words of mine and does them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.
- Matt 7:27 : 27 The rain fell, the flood came, and the winds beat against that house, and it collapsed– it was utterly destroyed!”
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4A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains the same through the ages.
5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.
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7All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is not full, and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again.
8All this monotony is tiresome; no one can bear to describe it: The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor is the ear ever content with hearing.
9What exists now is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done; there is nothing truly new on earth.
10Is there anything about which someone can say,“Look at this! It is new!”? It was already done long ago, before our time.
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9A tempest blows out from its chamber, icy cold from the driving winds.
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16This is another misfortune: Just as he came, so will he go. What did he gain from toiling for the wind?
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6It emerges from the distant horizon, and goes from one end of the sky to the other; nothing can escape its heat.
- Eccl 12:7-82 verses72%
7and the dust returns to the earth as it was, and the life’s breath returns to God who gave it.
8Concluding Refrain: Qoheleth Restates His Thesis“Absolutely futile!” laments the Teacher,“All of these things are futile!”
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17You, whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind,
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7He causes the clouds to arise from the end of the earth, makes lightning bolts accompany the rain, and brings the wind out of his storehouses.
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12The clouds go round in circles, wheeling about according to his plans, to carry out all that he commands them over the face of the whole inhabited world.
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16but when the hot wind blows by, it disappears, and one can no longer even spot the place where it once grew.
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24In what direction is lightning dispersed, or the east winds scattered over the earth?
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26He brought the east wind through the sky, and by his strength led forth the south wind.
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3If the clouds are full of rain, they will empty themselves on the earth, and whether a tree falls to the south or to the north, the tree will lie wherever it falls.
4He who watches the wind will not sow, and he who observes the clouds will not reap.
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16When his voice thunders, the waters in the heavens roar. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.
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21The east wind carries him away, and he is gone; it sweeps him out of his place.
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8The wind blows wherever it will, and you hear the sound it makes, but do not know where it comes from and where it is going. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”
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55And when you see the south wind blowing, you say,‘There will be scorching heat,’ and there is.
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13When his voice thunders, the heavenly ocean roars. He makes the clouds rise from the far-off horizons. He makes the lightning flash out in the midst of the rain. He unleashes the wind from the places where he stores it.
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1The Lord Will Judge Babylon This is an oracle about the wilderness by the Sea: Like strong winds blowing in the south, one invades from the wilderness, from a land that is feared.
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12No, a wind too strong for that will come at my bidding. Yes, even now I, myself, am calling down judgment on them.’
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20Both go to the same place, both come from the dust, and to dust both return.
21Who really knows if the human spirit ascends upward, and the animal’s spirit descends into the earth?
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21But now, the sun cannot be looked at– it is bright in the skies– after a wind passed and swept the clouds away.
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7Labor Motivated by Greed So I again considered another futile thing on earth:
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4Who has ascended into heaven, and then descended? Who has gathered up the winds in his fists? Who has bound up the waters in his cloak? Who has established all the ends of the earth? What is his name, and what is his son’s name? Surely you can know!
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12Each moved straight ahead– wherever the spirit would go, they would go, without turning as they went.
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14I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile– like chasing the wind!
15What is bent cannot be straightened, and what is missing cannot be supplied.
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4Look at ships too: Though they are so large and driven by harsh winds, they are steered by a tiny rudder wherever the pilot’s inclination directs.
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25When he made the force of the wind and measured the waters with a gauge,
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1A Time for All Events in Life For everything there is an appointed time, and an appropriate time for every activity on earth:
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18He then orders it all to melt; he breathes on it, and the water flows.
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8When you summon her for divorce, you prosecute her; he drives her away with his strong wind in the day of the east wind.
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26Do you intend to criticize mere words, and treat the words of a despairing man as wind?
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15Whatever exists now has already been, and whatever will be has already been; for God will seek to do again what has occurred in the past.
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10The rain and snow fall from the sky and do not return, but instead water the earth and make it produce and yield crops, and provide seed for the planter and food for those who must eat.
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1The king’s heart is in the hand of the LORD like channels of water; he turns it wherever he wants.
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2before the sun and the light of the moon and the stars grow dark, and the clouds disappear after the rain;
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13Wisdom Acknowledges God’s Orchestration of Life Consider the work of God: For who can make straight what he has bent?
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27He draws up drops of water; they distill the rain into its mist,
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8O fire and hail, snow and clouds, O stormy wind that carries out his orders,
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10He marks out the horizon on the surface of the waters as a boundary between light and darkness.
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8Then he cried out to me,“Look! The ones going to the northland have brought me peace about the northland.”