Ecclesiastes 1:7

World English Bible (2000)

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

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Referenced Verses

  • Job 38:10-11 : 10 marked out for it my bound, set bars and doors, 11 and said, 'Here you may come, but no further. Here your proud waves shall be stayed?'
  • Ps 104:6-9 : 6 You covered it with the deep as with a cloak. The waters stood above the mountains. 7 At your rebuke they fled. At the voice of your thunder they hurried away. 8 The mountains rose, the valleys sank down, to the place which you had assigned to them. 9 You have set a boundary that they may not pass over; that they don't turn again to cover the earth.

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