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Ecc 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.

Phrase of Scripture		Correlating Passages

the rivers run		Job 38:10,11; Psa 104:6-9
return again		Heb. return to go.

Correlating Passages

the rivers run

	Job 38:10	And brake up for it my decreed [place], and set bars and doors,
	Job 38:11	And said, Hitherto shalt thou come, but no further: and here shall thy proud waves be stayed?
	Psa 104:6	Thou coveredst it with the deep as [with] a garment: the waters stood above the mountains.
	Psa 104:7	At thy rebuke they fled; at the voice of thy thunder they hasted away.
	Psa 104:8	They go up by the mountains; they go down by the valleys unto the place which thou hast founded for them.
	Psa 104:9	Thou hast set a bound that they may not pass over; that they turn not again to cover the earth.

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Scott, Thomas. "Ecclesiastes 1:7," The Treasury of Scripture Knowledge. Blue Letter Bible. 1836. 9 Jul 2004. .
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