Ecclesiastes 1:7

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Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

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 (...
Arno Geneva Study Bible

All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea [is] not full; to the place from (f) which the rivers come, there they return again. (f) The sea which...
Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 may be called an introduction to the book; it also presents the writer's conclusions. He has surveyed life from many angles a...
Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

they return again. This is the point of the illustration. Compare Job 36:27 .
Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

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. All the rivers run...
Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

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. All the rive...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

All is Vanity 1-11. The writer describes himself. He declares that all things are transitory and without result, whether they be the works or the...
Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Unto the place ] The writer supposes that the salt water percolates by underground fissures, getting rid of its salt on the way, and so through hidd...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

(3-11) Man is perpetually toiling, yet of all his toil there remains no abiding result. The natural world exhibits a spectacle of unceasing activity,...
Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Whence the rivers come. — Better, whither the rivers go. (Comp. Sir. 40:11.)
Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

THE PROLOGUE In Which The Problem Of The Book Is Indirectly Stated Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 THE search for the summum bonum , the quest of the Ch...
Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

the Testimony of an Unsatisfied Soul Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 All is vanity ! This cry finds an echo in human hearts of every age and clime. Clod...
G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

The first verse of this chapter introduces us to the author of the Book. Taken in conjunction with verse Ecclesiastes 1:12 , it leaves no room for d...
Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? (4) One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth...
John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

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...
John Trapp Complete Commentary

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. Ver. 7. All t...
Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The sea is not full So as to overflow the earth, which might be expected from such vast accessions of waters to it. Whereby also he intimates the e...
Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

The Vanity of the World. 4 One generation passeth away, and anothe...
Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Is not full, to wit, to the brink, or so as to overflow the earth, which might be expected from such vast accessions to it; whereby also he intimat...
Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

The Meaninglessness of What Men Seek To Accomplish Comes Out In The Fact That Life Simply Follows A Continual Unchanging Repetition. It Is Purposele...
Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

CRITICAL NOTES.— Ecclesiastes 1:2 . Vanity.] The Hebrew word is Hebel (Abel) the name given to one of the sons of Adam. The subjection of the who...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 1:1-11 The search for the summum bonum , the quest of the chief good, is the theme of the book of Ecclesiastes. Naturally we look to...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 1:2-11 I. This passage is the preamble to the book; it ushers us at once into its realms of dreariness. It is as if he said, "It is a...
Sermon Bible Commentary

Ecclesiastes 1:4-10 I. It is universally acknowledged that the circle is the archetype of all forms, physically as well as mathematically. It is t...
Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Ecclesiastes 1:2 . Vanity of vanities. This is the Hebrew form of the superlative degree of comparison; as, the heaven of heavens, the song of son...
The Biblical Illustrator

One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh. The law of circularity, or retrogression, an essential element of progress The circ...
The Biblical Illustrator

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. The turn of the year There is a truth underlying the old conceit which pictured the u...
The Complete Pulpit Commentary

EXPOSITION Ecclesiastes 1:1 THE TITLE . The words of the Preacher, the son of David, King in Jerusalem ; Septuagint, "King of Israel i...
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

General Introduction
The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full, it does not overflow on account of the immense masses of water which it constantly receives...
Wells of Living Water Commentary

The Man under the Sun Ecclesiastes 1:1-18 INTRODUCTORY WORDS In order to introduce this study we can think of no better way than to go to our...
Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Is not full — So as to overflow the earth. Whereby also he intimates the emptiness of mens minds, notwithstanding all the abundance of creature com...

⁷ All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they returnb again.

Related Commentaries of Ecclesiastes 1:7

Albert Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Arno Geneva Study Bible

Arthur Peake's Commentary on the Bible

Bullinger's Companion Bible Notes

Clarke's commentary and critical notes on the Bible

Commentary Critical and Explanatory on the Whole Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Dummelow's Commentary on the Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Expositor's Bible Commentary (Nicoll)

Frederick Brotherton Meyer's Commentary

G. Campbell Morgan's Exposition on the Whole Bible

Hawker's Poor Man's Commentary

John Gill's Exposition of the Entire Bible

John Trapp Complete Commentary

Joseph Benson’s Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

Matthew Henry's Whole Bible Commentary

Matthew Poole's English Annotations on the Holy Bible

Peter Pett's Commentary on the Bible

Preacher's Complete Homiletical Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sermon Bible Commentary

Sutcliffe's Commentary on the Old and New Testaments

The Biblical Illustrator

The Biblical Illustrator

The Complete Pulpit Commentary

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

The Popular Commentary by Paul E. Kretzmann

Wells of Living Water Commentary

Wesley's Explanatory Notes

Ecclesiastes 1:7