All the rivers [a]flow into the sea,
Yet the sea is not full.
To the place where the rivers [b]flow,
There they [c]flow again.
All things are wearisome;
No one can tell it.
(A)The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
Nor is the ear filled with hearing.
(B)What has been, it is what will be,
And what has been done, it is what will be done.
So there is nothing new under the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. Ecclesiastes 1:7 Lit go
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  3. Ecclesiastes 1:7 Lit go

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