Pengkhotbah 1:8

Bahasa Indonesia Sehari-hari

Segala sesuatu menjemukan, sehingga tak terkatakan oleh manusia; mata tidak kenyang melihat, telinga tidak puas mendengar.

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Segala sesuatu menjemukan, sehingga tak terkatakan oleh manusia; mata tidak kenyang melihat, telinga tidak puas mendengar.

Contextual Overview

⁴ One generation passeth away, another commeth: but the earth abideth styll. ⁵ The sunne aryseth, the sunne goeth downe, and returneth to his place, that he may there ryse vp agayne. ⁶ The wynde goeth towarde the south and turneth vnto the north, fetcheth his compasse, whirleth about, and goeth foorth, and returneth agayne to his circuites from whence he dyd come. ⁷ All fluddes runne into the sea, and yet is the sea it selfe not fylled: For loke vnto what place the waters runne, thence they come to flowe agayne. ⁸ 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.

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

Genesis 1:5
And God called the light day, and the darknes night: and the euenyng & the mornyng were the first day.

Genesis 1:10
And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.

Genesis 1:13
And God sawe that it was good. And the euenyng and the mornyng were the thirde day.

Genesis 1:19
And the euenyng and the mornyng were the fourth day.

Genesis 1:23
And the euenyng and mornyng were the fift day.

Genesis 1:31
And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.

Genesis 5:2
Male and female created he them, and blessed them, and called their name Adam in the daye of their creation.

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.