Ecclesiastes 1:6 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁶ The wind blows to the south, and goes round 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 flow again.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As you do not know how the spirit comes to the bones in the womb of a woman with child, 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 there was a mighty tempest on the sea, so that the ship threatened to break up.

Matthew 7:24

“Every one then who hears these words of mine and does them will be like a wise man who built his house upon the rock;

Matthew 7:27

and the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds blew and beat against that house, and it fell; and great was the fall of it.”

John 3:8

The wind blows where it wills, and you hear the sound of it, but you do not know whence it comes or whither it goes; so it is with every one who is born of the Spirit.”