Ecclesiastes 1:8 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁸ 5 The perverse are hard to be corrected, and the number of fools is infinite.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ All things are weary with toil and all words are feeble; man cannot utter it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. [Prov. 27:20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Common English Bible

⁸ All words are tiring; no one is able to speak. The eye isn’t satisfied with seeing, neither is the ear filled up by hearing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Such things are difficult; man is not able to explain them with words. The eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor is the ear fulfilled by hearing.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 Cross References

Psalm 63:5

Unto the end, a psalm for David. Hear, O God, my prayer, when I make supplication to thee : deliver my soul from the fear of the enemy.

Proverbs 27:20

7 Let the milk of the goats be enough for thy food, and for the necessities of thy house, and for maintenance for thy handmaids.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

4 I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

8 Again I hated all my application wherewith I had earnestly laboured under the sun, being like to have an heir after me,

Ecclesiastes 2:26

A time to rend, and a time to sew. A time to keep silence, and a time to speak.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

5 I saw all men living, that walk under the sun with the second young man, who shall rise up in his place.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

It is better to go to the house of mourning, than to the house of feasting: for in that we are put in mind of the end of all, and the living thinketh what is to come.

Haggai 1:9

Speak to Zorobabel the son of Salathiel the governor of Juda, and to Jesus the son of Josedec the high priest, and to the rest of the people, saying:

Matthew 11:28

But I tell you that there is here a greater than the temple.

Matthew 5:6

4 You are the light of the world. A city seated on a mountain cannot be hid.