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Ecclesiastes 1:8 - Meaning and Application

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Translation: World English Bible — Catholic Edition

" All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. "

Ecclesiastes 1:8

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6 The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

7 All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

8 All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

9 That which has been is that which shall be, and that which has been done is that which shall be done; and there is no new thing under the sun.

10 Is there a thing of which it may be said, “Behold, this is new”? It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

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