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All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.
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Nature's Repetitive Cycle
Commentators explain that the verse uses the water cycle—rivers flowing to the sea, which never fills, and water returning to its source—as a powerful illustration. This endless, repetitive motion in nature mirrors the theme of the chapter: constant activity without any lasting change or progress. It's a picture of ceaseless, circular motion.
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Ecclesiastes
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18th Century
Presbyterian
The place - that is, the spring or river-head. It would seem that the ancient Hebrews regarded the clouds as the immediate feeders of the sp…
19th Century
Anglican
Man is perpetually toiling, yet from all his toil, no lasting result remains. The natural world exhibits a spectacle of unceasing activity, with no…
17th Century
Reformed Baptist
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full, etc.] Which flow from fountains or are formed by hasty rains; these mak…
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All things change, and never rest. Man, after all his labor, is no nearer finding rest than the sun, the wind, or the current of the river. His sou…
