All the rivers go into the sea, yet the sea is not full: for the rivers go unto the place [a]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.

[b]What is it that hath been? that that shall be: and what is it that hath been done? that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. 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.
  2. Ecclesiastes 1:9 He speaketh of times and seasons, and things done in them, which as they have been in times past, so come they to pass again.

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