The [a]wind goeth toward the South, and compasseth toward the North: the wind goeth round about, and returneth by his circuits.

All the rivers go into the sea, yet the sea is not full: for the rivers go unto the place [b]whence they return, and go.

All things are full of labor: man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:6 By the sun, wind and rivers, he showeth that the greatest labor and longest hath an end, and therefore there can be no felicity in this world.
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:7 The sea which compasseth all the earth, filleth the veins thereof, the which pour out springs and rivers into the sea again.

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