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The wind blows southward,
    then northward, constantly circulating,
        and the wind comes back again in its courses.
All the rivers flow toward the sea,
    but the sea is never full;
        then rivers return to the headwaters[a] where they began.

Everything is wearisome,
    more than man is able to express.
The eye is never satisfied by seeing,
    nor the ear by hearing.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:7 Lit. place