Parallel Verses
Julia Smith Translation
All words becoming weary; man shall not be able to speak: the eye shall not be satisfied to see, and the ear shall not be filled from hearing.
New American Standard Bible
Man is not able to tell it.
Nor is the ear filled with hearing.
King James Version
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Holman Bible
man is unable to speak.
The eye is not satisfied by seeing
or the ear filled with hearing.
International Standard Version
Everything is wearisome, more than man is able to express. The eye is never satisfied by seeing, nor the ear by hearing.
A Conservative Version
All things are full of weariness, man cannot utter [it]. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
American Standard Version
All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Amplified
All things are wearisome and all words are frail;
Man cannot express it.
The eye is not satisfied with seeing,
Nor is the ear filled with hearing.
Bible in Basic English
All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.
Darby Translation
All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
King James 2000
All things are full of weariness; man cannot express it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Lexham Expanded Bible
All things toil continuously; no one can ever finish describing this. The eye is never satisfied with seeing, and the ear is never filled with hearing.
Modern King James verseion
All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
All things are so hard, that no man can express them. The eye is not satisfied with sight; the ear is not filled with hearing.
NET Bible
All this monotony is tiresome; no one can bear to describe it: The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor is the ear ever content with hearing.
New Heart English Bible
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
The Emphasized Bible
All words, are weak, unable is any man to tell, - not satisfied is the eye by seeing, nor filled is the ear with hearing.
Webster
All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
World English Bible
All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
Youngs Literal Translation
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.
Themes
ears » Not satisfied with earthly things
Eye » Figurative » Of evil desire, never satisfied
Interlinear
Yakol
Dabar
`ayin
Ra'ah
'ozen
References
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Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 1:8
Verse Info
Context Readings
All Toil Is Profitless And Repetitious
7 All the torrents going into the sea, and the sea not full: to the place the torrents going, there they turn back to go. 8 All words becoming weary; man shall not be able to speak: the eye shall not be satisfied to see, and the ear shall not be filled from hearing. 9 What was, that shall be; and what was done, that shall be done: and not anything new under the sun.
Phrases
Names
Cross References
Proverbs 27:20
Hades and destruction shall not be satisfied; and the eyes of man shall not be satisfied.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
There is one, and not a second; also a son and brother not to him: and no end to all his labor; also his eye shall not be satisfied with riches: and for whom do I labor and diminish my soul from good? Also this is vanity, and it is an evil labor.
Psalm 63:5
As milk and fatness my soul shall be satisfied; and with rejoicing lips shall my mouth praise.
Proverbs 30:15-16
To the leech two daughters: Give, give. Behold, three shall not satisfied; four shall not say, Wealth:
Ecclesiastes 2:11
And I looked upon all my works my hands made, and upon the labor I labored to do, and behold, all vanity and striving of the spirit, and no profit under the sun.
Ecclesiastes 2:26
For to a man good before his face, he gave wisdom and knowledge and gladness: and to him sinning, he gave labor, to gather and to heap up, to give to the good one before the face of God. Also this is vanity and the striving of the spirit.
Ecclesiastes 4:1-4
And I turned back, and I shall see all the oppressions which are doing under the sun: and behold, the tears of the oppressed, and none comforting to them; and from the hand of those oppressing them was power, and none comforting to them.
Ecclesiastes 5:10-11
He loving silver shall not be satisfied with silver; and whoever loved not the increase with the multitude. Also this is vanity.
Ecclesiastes 7:24-26
What was far off, and the depth, deep, who shall find it?
Matthew 5:6
Happy they hungering and thirsting for Justice: for they shall be filled.
Matthew 11:28
Come to me, all ye wearied and loaded, and I will cause you to rest.
Romans 8:22-23
For we know that all creation groans together and travails together until now.
Revelation 7:16-17
They shall hunger no more, nor thirst any more; nor should the sun fall upon them, neither any heat.