Ecclesiastes 1:8 KJV — MannaFest

Ecclesiastes 1:8

All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

KJV

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WEB

All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.

ASV

All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

YLT

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.

DBT

All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

About this book

Old Testament

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Ecclesiastes — Qohelet the Preacher — ''vanity of vanities, all is vanity.'' The book's relentless examination of life under the sun, resolving not in despair but in ''fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man.''

Author: Traditional: Solomon (''son of David, king in Jerusalem''). Critical: a later Qohelet figure writing in Solomonic persona. §7.9 surfaces; Pastor Marc's drawer carries the position.
Date: Solomonic reading: c. 940 BC. Critical reading: Persian or early Hellenistic period (5th–3rd century BC).

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14 verses on the floor

Matthew 11:28
Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.
Proverbs 27:20
Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one alone, and there is not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet is there no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither saith he, For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This is also vanity, yea, it is a sore travail.
Job 5:7
Yet man is born unto trouble, as the sparks fly upward.
Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I looked on all the works that my hands had wrought, and on the labour that I had laboured to do: and, behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

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Cross-references: OpenBible.info (CC-BY), based on the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge.

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We must therefore look above the sun for satisfaction, and for a new world. That this world is, at the best, a weary land: All is vanity, for all is full of labour. The whole creation is made subject to this vanity ever since man was sentenced to eat bread in the sweat of his brows.

Matthew Henry· Commentary on the Whole Bible, 1710puritan

The eye and ear are two of the taskmasters for which man toils. But these are never "satisfied" (Ec 6:7; Nor can they be so hereafter, for there will be nothing "new." Not so the chief good, Jesus Christ (Joh 4:13, 14;

Jamieson, Fausset & Brown· Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible, 1871reformed

Is not satisfied - As there are many things in the world vexatious to men, so even those things which are comfortable, are not satisfactory, but men are constantly desiring some longer continuance or fuller enjoyment of them, or variety in them.

John Wesley (NT Notes)· Explanatory Notes upon the Bible, 1765evangelical

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Two steps out along the cross-reference floor, votes-ranked — destinations reached by more than one path rise (the text's own hubs). Every stop is a page.

ECC 1:8MAT 11:28 MAT 11:29
ECC 1:8MAT 11:28 JHN 7:37
ECC 1:8MAT 11:28 JHN 6:37
ECC 1:8MAT 11:28 GAL 5:1
ECC 1:8MAT 11:28 ISA 55:1-3
ECC 1:8PRO 27:20 1JN 2:16
Reached by 2 independent paths from here.
ECC 1:8PRO 27:20 PRO 30:15-16
ECC 1:8PRO 27:20 ECC 6:7

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