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Ecclesiastes 1:7

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All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.

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  1. Ecclesiastes 1:5

    The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

  2. Ecclesiastes 1:6

    The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

  3. Ecclesiastes 1:8

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

  4. Ecclesiastes 1:9

    The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

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Scripture: King James Version (KJV), English, 66-book canon. The quotation retains the wording and numbering of our source corpus.