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Ecclesiastes 1:8
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All things are wearisome;Man is not able to speak of it.The eye is not satisfied with seeing,Nor is the ear filled with hearing.
All things are wearisome; Man is not able to tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing.
All thinges are so harde to be knowen, that no man can expresse them: The eye is not satisfied with sight, the eare is not fylled with hearyng.
All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All things are full of labor; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor the ear filled with hearing.
All words are wearisome; a man is not able to utter it. The eye is not satisfied to see, nor is the ear filled from hearing.
Words cannot fully explain things, but people continue speaking. Words come again and again to our ears, but our ears don't become full. And our eyes don't become full of what we see.
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All things are full of labour, man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All thinges are so harde, yt no ma can expresse them. The eye is not satisfied wt sight, the eare is not fylled wt hearinge.
All things are wearisome and all words are frail; Man cannot express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing.
All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.
All things are full of weariness; man can't utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All things [are] full of labor; man cannot utter [it]: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All this monotony is tiresome; no one can bear to describe it: The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor is the ear ever content with hearing.
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.
Everything is wearisome, more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, the ear not filled up with hearing.
All things are full of labour: man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.
All things are wearisome: a man is not satisfied with utterance, his eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor his ear satisfied with hearing.
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All things toil to weariness; man cannot utter it, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All things are tiring. Man is not able to tell about them. The eye never has enough to see, and the ear is never filled with what it hears.
All things are full of labour; a man will not be able to speak of them: neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.
All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
All things are wearisome; more than one can express; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, or the ear filled with hearing.
All words, are weak, unable is any man to tell, - not satisfied is the eye by seeing, nor filled is the ear with hearing.
All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.
All things toil continuously; no one can ever finish describing this. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, and the ear is never filled with hearing.
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All things are wearisome; No one can tell it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, Nor is the ear filled with hearing.
Everything is boring, so boring that you don't even want to talk about it. Words come again and again to our ears, but we never hear enough, nor can we ever really see all we want to see.
Everything leads to weariness—a weariness too great for words. Our eyes can never see enough to be satisfied; our ears can never hear enough.
All things are wearisome; man is unable to speak. The eye is not satisfied by seeing or the ear filled with hearing.
Alle thingis ben hard; a man may not declare tho thingis bi word; the iye is not fillid bi siyt, nether the eere is fillid bi hering.
All things are full of weariness; a man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.
Contextual Overview
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
full: Ecclesiastes 2:11, Ecclesiastes 2:26, Matthew 11:28, Romans 8:22, Romans 8:23
man: Ecclesiastes 4:1-4, Ecclesiastes 7:24-26
the eye: Ecclesiastes 4:8, Ecclesiastes 5:10, Ecclesiastes 5:11, Psalms 63:5, Proverbs 27:20, Proverbs 30:15, Proverbs 30:16, Matthew 5:6, Revelation 7:16, Revelation 7:17
Reciprocal: Job 5:7 - trouble
Cross-References
God called the light "day" and the darkness "night." And evening passed and morning came, marking the first day.
God called the dry ground "land" and the waters "seas." And God saw that it was good.
And evening passed and morning came, marking the third day.
And evening passed and morning came, marking the fourth day.
And evening passed and morning came, marking the fifth day.
Then God looked over all he had made, and he saw that it was very good! And evening passed and morning came, marking the sixth day.
He created them male and female, and he blessed them and called them "human."
Gill's Notes on the Bible
All things [are] full of labour,.... Or "are laborious" g; gotten by labour, and attended with fatigue and weariness; riches are got by labour, and those who load themselves with thick clay, as gold and silver be, weary themselves with it; honour and glory, crowns and kingdoms, are weighty cares, and very fatiguing to those that have them; much study to acquire knowledge is a weariness to the flesh; and as men even weary themselves to commit iniquity, it is no wonder that religious exercises should be a weariness to a natural man, and a carnal professor;
man cannot utter [it]; or declare all the things that are laborious and fatiguing, nor all the labour they are full of; time would fail, and words be wanting to express the whole; all the vanity, unprofitableness, and unsatisfying nature of all things below the sun; particularly
the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing; both one and the other require new objects continually; the pleasure of these senses is blunted by the same objects constantly presented; men are always seeking new ones, and when they have got them they want others; whatever curious thing is to be seen the eye craves it; and, after it has dwelt on it a while, it grows tired of it, and wants something else to divert it; and so the ear is delighted with musical sounds, but in time loses the taste of them, and seeks for others; and in discourse and conversation never easy, unless, like the Athenians, it hears some new things, and which quickly grow stale, and then wants fresh ones still: and indeed the spiritual eye and ear will never be satisfied in this life, until the soul comes into the perfect state of blessedness, and beholds the face of God, and sees him as he is; and sees and hears what eye hath not seen, nor ear heard below. The Targum is,
"all the words that shall be in the world, the ancient prophets were weary in them, and they could not find out the ends of them; yea, a man has no power to say what shall be after him; and the eye cannot see all that shall be in the world, and the ear cannot be filled with hearing all the words of all the inhabitants of the world.''
g יגעים "laboriosae", Pagninus, Vatablus, Mercerus, Gejerus, Schmidt.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
All things ... utter it - This clause, as here translated, refers to the immensity of labor. Others translate it, “all words are full of labor; they make weary the hearers,” or “are feeble or insufficient” to tell the whole; and are referred to the impossibility of adequately describing labor.
Clarke's Notes on the Bible
Verse Ecclesiastes 1:8. All things are full of labour — It is; impossible to calculate how much anxiety, pain, labour, and fatigue are necessary in order to carry on the common operations of life. But an endless desire of gain, and an endless curiosity to witness a variety of results, cause men to, labour on. The eye sees much, but wishes to see more. The ear hears of many things; but is curious to have the actual knowledge of them. So desire and curiosity carry men, under the Divine providence, through all the labours and pains of life.
