Ecclesiastes 1:6 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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.

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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

How thy garments are warm, When the earth is still by reason of the south wind?

Job 37:9

Out of the chamber of the south cometh the storm: And cold out of the north.

Psalm 107:25

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, Which lifteth up the waves thereof.

Psalm 107:29

He maketh the storm a calm, So that the waves thereof are still.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; unto the place whither the rivers go, thither they go again.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

As thou knowest not what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child; even so thou knowest not the work of God who doeth all.

Jonah 1:4

But the LORD sent out a great wind into the sea, and there was a mighty tempest in the sea, so that the ship was like to be broken.

Matthew 7:24

Every one therefore which heareth these words of mine, and doeth them, shall be likened unto a wise man, which built his house upon the rock:

Matthew 7:27

and the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and smote upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall thereof.

John 3:8

The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the voice thereof, but knowest not whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit.