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.
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Gill's Exposition
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full,.... Which flow from fountains or an formed by hasty rains; these make their way to the sea, yet the sea is not filled therewith, and made to…
Barnes' Notes
The place - i. e., The spring or river-head. It would seem that the ancient Hebrews regarded the clouds as the immediate feeders of the springs (Pro 8:28, and Psa 104:10, Psa 104:13). Gen 2:6…
To prove the vanity of all things under the sun, and their insufficiency to make us happy, Solomon here shows, 1. That the time of our enjoyment of these things is very short, and only while we…
Cambridge Bible
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full The words express the wonder of the earliest observers of the phenomena of nature: as they observed, the poet described.
So we have in…