Ecclesiastes 1:8 - Christian Standard Bible Anglicised

⁸ All things  are wearisome, more than anyone can say. The eye is not satisfied by seeing or the ear filled with hearing.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁸ All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁸ All things are weary with toil and all words are feeble; man cannot utter it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. [Prov. 27:20.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁸ All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.

Common English Bible

⁸ All words are tiring; no one is able to speak. The eye isn’t satisfied with seeing, neither is the ear filled up by hearing.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁸ Such things are difficult; man is not able to explain them with words. The eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor is the ear fulfilled by hearing.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁸ All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 Tagairtí Cros

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon  are never satisfied, and people’s eyes are never satisfied.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the streams flow to the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

When I considered all that I had accomplished  and what I had laboured to achieve, I found everything to be futile and a pursuit of the wind.  , There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

For to the person who is pleasing in his sight, he gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy;  but to the sinner he gives the task of gathering and accumulating in order to give to the one who is pleasing in God’s sight.  This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a person without a companion,  without even a son or brother, and though there is no end to all his struggles, his eyes are still not content with riches.  ‘Who am I struggling for,’ he asks, ‘and depriving myself of good things? ’ This too is futile and a miserable task.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All of a person’s labour is for his stomach,  , yet the appetite is never satisfied.

Haggai 1:9

‘You expected much, but then it amounted to little. When you brought the harvest to your house, I ruined  it. Why? ’ This is the declaration of the Lord of Armies. ‘Because my house still lies in ruins, while each of you is busy with his own house.

Matthew 11:28

‘Come to me, all of you who are weary and burdened, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 5:6

Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness, for they will be filled.