Ecclesiastes 1:5-11

5 The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.
7 All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
8 All things are wearisome, more than one can say. The eye never has enough of seeing, nor the ear its fill of hearing.
9 What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.
10 Is there anything of which one can say, “Look! This is something new”? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.
11 No one remembers the former generations, and even those yet to come will not be remembered by those who follow them.

Cross References 6

  • 1. Psalms 19:5-6
  • 2. Job 36:28
  • 3. Proverbs 27:20
  • 4. Ecclesiastes 2:12; Ecclesiastes 3:15
  • 5. Genesis 40:23; Ecclesiastes 9:15
  • 6. Psalms 88:12; Ecclesiastes 2:16; Ecclesiastes 8:10; Ecclesiastes 9:5
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