Ecclesiastes 1:8

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What does Ecclesiastes 1:8 mean?

Ecclesiastes 1:8 in the original Hebrew

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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 1:8

• Proverbs 27:20

  Hell and destruction are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

• Matthew 11:28

  Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest.

• 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.

• Ecclesiastes 5:10-11

  He that loveth silver shall not be satisfied with silver; nor he that loveth abundance with increase: this is also vanity. When goods increase, they are increased that eat them: and what good is there to the owners thereof, saving the beholding of them with their eyes?

• Psalms 63:5

  My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness; and my mouth shall praise thee with joyful lips:

• Ecclesiastes 4:1-4

  So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter. Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.

• Romans 8:22-23

  For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth in pain together until now. And not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit, even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption, to wit, the redemption of our body.

• Revelation 7:16-17

  They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more; neither shall the sun light on them, nor any heat. For the Lamb which is in the midst of the throne shall feed them, and shall lead them unto living fountains of waters: and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes.

• 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.

• Proverbs 30:15-16

  The horseleach hath two daughters, crying, Give, give. There are three things that are never satisfied, yea, four things say not, It is enough: The grave; and the barren womb; the earth that is not filled with water; and the fire that saith not, It is enough.

• Ecclesiastes 2:26

  For God giveth to a man that is good in his sight wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he giveth travail, to gather and to heap up, that he may give to him that is good before God. This also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

• Ecclesiastes 7:24-26

  That which is far off, and exceeding deep, who can find it out? I applied mine heart to know, and to search, and to seek out wisdom, and the reason of things, and to know the wickedness of folly, even of foolishness and madness: And I find more bitter than death the woman, whose heart is snares and nets, and her hands as bands: whoso pleaseth God shall escape from her; but the sinner shall be taken by her.

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Context

• Ecclesiastes 1:7

  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.

• 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.

• Ecclesiastes 1:9

  The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

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