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Ecclesiastes 1:8 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 1 · verse 8
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.Ecclesiastes 1:8 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 1:8 in context
6The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.
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.
8All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
9The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
10Is there any thing whereof it may be said, See, this is new? it hath been already of old time, which was before us.
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Key words (Strong's)
- satisfiedsâbaʻto sateH7646 →
- labouryâgêaʻtiredH3023 →
- cannotyâkôlto be able, literally or morallyH3201 →
- seeingrâʼâhto see, literally or figurativelyH7200 →
- filledmâlêʼto fill or be full of, in a wide applicationH4390 →
- utterdâbarperhaps properly, to arrangeH1696 →
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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.
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 4-8