Ecclesiastes 1:8

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Ecclesiastes 1:8

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BSB

Berean Standard Bible

All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

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KJV

King James Version

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

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WEB

World English Bible

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

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ASV

American Standard Version

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

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Berean Literal Bible

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

Ecclesiastes 1

⁶ The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.

⁷ All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.

⁸ All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

⁹ What has been will be again, and what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

¹⁰ Is there a case where one can say, “Look, this is new”? It has already existed in the ages before us.

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