Ecclesiastes 1:8

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.

Cross References

Proverbs 27:20

Hell and destruction are never filled: so the eyes of men are never satisfied.

Matthew 11:28

Come to me, all you that labour, and are burdened, and I will refresh you.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is but one, and he hath not a second, no child, no brother, and yet he ceaseth not to labour, neither are his eyes satisfied with riches, neither doth he reflect, saying: For whom do I labour, and defraud my soul of good things? in this also is vanity, and a grievous vexation.

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are they that hunger and thirst after justice: for they shall have their fill.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

God hath given to a man that is good in his sight, wisdom, and knowledge, and joy: but to the sinner he hath given vexation, and superfluous care, to heap up and to gather together, and to give it to him that hath pleased God: but this also is vanity, and a fruitless solicitude of the mind.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

And when I turned myself to all the works which my hands had wrought, and to the labours wherein I had laboured in vain, I saw in all things vanity, and vexation of mind, and that nothing was lasting under the sun.

Psalm 63:5

to shoot in secret the undefiled.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.

Haggai 1:9

You have looked for more, and behold it became less, and you brought it home, and I blowed it away: why, saith the Lord of hosts? because my house is desolate, and you make haste every man to his own house.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.