Ecclesiastes 1:8 - Modern English Version

⁸ All matters are wearisome. A person is not able to speak to them. The eye is not satisfied with what it sees, and the ear is not content with what it hears.

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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.

Ecclesiastes 1:8 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 63:5

My soul shall be satisfied as with marrow and fatness, and my mouth shall praise You with joyful lips.

Proverbs 27:20

Sheol and Abaddon are never satisfied; so the eyes of man are never satisfied.

Ecclesiastes 1:7

All the streams flow into the sea, and the sea is never filled up. And to the place where the streams flow, there they continually return to flow.

Ecclesiastes 2:11

Then I turned to all the work that my hands had done, and all the labor in which I had toiled doing it; and again, all of it was vanity and chasing the wind, and there was no benefit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:26

To the person who is pleasing before Him, God gives wisdom, knowledge, and joy, but to the one who sins, He gives the task to gather and collect, to give to the other person who is pleasing before God. This also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 4:8

There is a person who is alone, having neither son nor brother; there is not an end to all his toil, and his eyes are not satisfied with riches. He asks, “For whom do I labor and cause my life to lack good things?” This also is vanity and a burdensome task.

Ecclesiastes 6:7

All the labor of a person is for his mouth, to fill his stomach, but his appetite is not filled.

Haggai 1:9

You looked for much, and it came to little; and when you brought it home, I blew it away. Why? says the Lord of Hosts. Because of My house that lies in ruins while each of you runs to his own house.

Matthew 11:28

“Come to Me, all you who labor and are heavily burdened, and I will give you rest.

Matthew 5:6

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