Ecclesiastes 1:7 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁷All 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 —

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Cross-References

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Job 38:10-11
And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors, …
Psalms 104:6-9
Thou coveredst it with the deep as with a garment: the waters stood above the mountains. …

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Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 4-8)

To prove the vanity of all things under the sun, and their insufficiency to make us happy, Solomon here shows, 1. That the time of our enjoyment of these things is very short, and only while we accomplish as a hireling his day. We continue in the world but for one generation, which is continually passing away to make room for another, and we are passing with it. Our worldly possessions we very lat…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 7)

7. By subterraneous cavities, and by evaporation forming rain clouds, the fountains and rivers are supplied from the sea, into which they then flow back. The connection is: Individual men are continually changing, while the succession of the race continues; just as the sun, wind, and rivers are ever shifting about, while the cycle in which they move is invariable; they return to the point whence t…