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Ecclesiastes 1:7-9
Contemporary English Version

7 All rivers empty into the sea,
    but it never spills over;
one by one the rivers return
    to their source.[a]

8 All of life is far more boring
    than words could ever say.
Our eyes and our ears
are never satisfied
    with what we see and hear.
9 Everything that happens
    has happened before;
nothing is new,
    nothing under the sun.

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Footnotes

  1. 1.7 return to their source: Or “flow into the sea.”
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