Ecclesiastes 1:6

Good News Translation

The wind blows south, the wind blows north—round and round and back again.

Cross References

Job 37:17

No, you can only suffer in the heat when the south wind oppresses the land.

Job 37:9

The storm winds come from the south, and the biting cold from the north.

Psalm 107:25

He commanded, and a mighty wind began to blow and stirred up the waves.

Psalm 107:29

He calmed the raging storm, and the waves became quiet.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

Every river flows into the sea, but the sea is not yet full. The water returns to where the rivers began, and starts all over again.

Ecclesiastes 11:5

God made everything, and you can no more understand what he does than you understand how new life begins in the womb of a pregnant woman.

Jonah 1:4

But the Lord sent a strong wind on the sea, and the storm was so violent that the ship was in danger of breaking up.

Matthew 7:24

“So then, anyone who hears these words of mine and obeys them is like a wise man who built his house on rock.

Matthew 7:27

The rain poured down, the rivers flooded over, the wind blew hard against that house, and it fell. And what a terrible fall that was!”

John 3:8

The wind blows wherever it wishes; you hear the sound it makes, but you do not know where it comes from or where it is going. It is like that with everyone who is born of the Spirit.”