Ecclesiastes 1:7

NET Bible® (New English Translation)

All 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.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:10-11 : 10 when I prescribed its limits, and set in place its bolts and doors, 11 when I said,‘To here you may come and no farther, here your proud waves will be confined’?
  • Ps 104:6-9 : 6 The watery deep covered it like a garment; the waters reached above the mountains. 7 Your shout made the waters retreat; at the sound of your thunderous voice they hurried off– 8 as the mountains rose up, and the valleys went down– to the place you appointed for them. 9 You set up a boundary for them that they could not cross, so that they would not cover the earth again.

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