Ecclesiastes 1:7
hAll the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they 2return again.
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.
h:
Job 38:10 And brake up for it my decreed place, and set bars and doors,
Psalms 104:8 They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
Psalms 104:9 Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.
Psalms 107:26 They mount up to the heaven, they go down again to the depths: their soul is melted because of trouble.
Psalms 107:35 He turneth the wilderness into a standing water, and dry ground into watersprings.
2:
Heb. return to go.
to wit, to the brink, or so as to overflow the earth, which might be expected from such vast accessions to it; whereby also he intimates the emptiness and dissatisfaction of men’s minds, not withstanding all the abundance of creature-comforts.
either,
1. Unto the sea, from whence they are supposed to return into their proper channels, and then, as it is expressed, thither (i.e. into the sea) they return again. Or,
2. Unto their springs or fountains, to which the waters return by secret passages of the earth, as is manifest from the Caspian Sea, and reasonably supposed in other places. Or rather,
3. Unto the earth in general, from whence they come or How into the sea, and to which they return again by the reflux of the sea. For he seems to speak of the visible and constant motion of the waters, both to the sea and from it, and then to it again in a perpetual reciprocation; which agrees best with the former similitudes, Ecc 1:5,6.