Ecclesiastes 1:6 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁶ The wind blows to the south and goes around to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁶ The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁶ The wind goes to the south and circles about to the north; it circles and circles about continually, and on its circuit the wind returns again. [John 3:8.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁶ The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it turneth about continually in its course, and the wind returneth again to its circuits.

Common English Bible

⁶ The wind blows to the south, goes around to the north; around and around blows the wind; the wind returns to its rounds again.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁶ it circles through the south, and arcs toward the north. The spirit continues on, illuminating everything in its circuit, and turning again in its cycle.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁶ Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits.

Ecclesiastes 1:6 Cross References

Job 37:17

you whose garments are hot when the earth is still because of the south wind?

Job 37:9

From its chamber comes the whirlwind and cold from the scattering winds.

Psalm 107:25

For he commanded and raised the stormy wind, which lifted up the waves of the sea.

Psalm 107:29

he made the storm be still, and the waves of the sea were hushed.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All streams run to the sea, but the sea is not full; to the place where the streams flow, there they continue to flow.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

Just as you do not know how the breath comes to the bones in the mother’s womb, so you do not know the work of God, who makes everything.

Jonah 1:4

But the Lord hurled a great wind upon the sea, and such a mighty storm came upon the sea that the ship threatened to break up.

Matthew 7:24

“Everyone, then, who hears these words of mine and acts on them will be like a wise man who built his house on rock.

Matthew 7:27

The rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell—and great was its fall!”

John 3:8

The wind blows where it chooses, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know where it comes from or where it goes. So it is with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”