Ecclesiastes 1:7
Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 The Message (MSG)
Smoke, nothing but smoke. [That’s what the Quester says.] There’s nothing to anything—it’s all smoke. What’s there to show for a lifetime of work, a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone? One generation goes its way, the next one arrives, but nothing changes—it’s business as usual for old planet earth. The sun comes up and the sun goes down, then does it again, and again—the same old round. The wind blows south, the wind blows north. Around and around and around it blows, blowing this way, then that—the whirling, erratic wind. All the rivers flow into the sea, but the sea never fills up. The rivers keep flowing to the same old place, and then start all over and do it again. Everything’s boring, utterly boring— no one can find any meaning in it. Boring to the eye, boring to the ear. What was will be again, what happened will happen again. There’s nothing new on this earth. Year after year it’s the same old thing. Does someone call out, “Hey, this is new”? Don’t get excited—it’s the same old story. Nobody remembers what happened yesterday. And the things that will happen tomorrow? Nobody’ll remember them either. Don’t count on being remembered.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 King James Version (KJV)
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.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 New American Standard Bible - NASB 1995 (NASB1995)
All the rivers flow into the sea, Yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, There they flow again.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 New Century Version (NCV)
All the rivers flow to the sea, but the sea never becomes full.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 American Standard Version (ASV)
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 New International Version (NIV)
All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return again.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 New King James Version (NKJV)
All the rivers run into the sea, Yet the sea is not full; To the place from which the rivers come, There they return again.
Ecclesiastes 1:7 Amplified Bible (AMP)
All the rivers flow into the sea, Yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, There they flow again.