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What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?(Ecclesiastes 1:3)
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.(Ecclesiastes 1:4)
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.(Ecclesiastes 1:5)
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.
All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again.(Ecclesiastes 1:7)
All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.(Ecclesiastes 1:8)
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.(Ecclesiastes 1:9)

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Ecclesiastes 1:6 - Cross Reference

For he commandeth, and raiseth the stormy wind, which lifteth up the waves thereof. (Psalm 107:25)
And the rain descended, and the floods came, and the winds blew, and beat upon that house; and it fell: and great was the fall of it. (Matthew 7:27)
And when the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, loosing thence, they sailed close by Crete. (Acts 27:13)
He maketh the storm a calm, so that the waves thereof are still. (Psalm 107:29)
How thy garments are warm, when he quieteth the earth by the south wind? (Job 37:17)
The wind bloweth where it listeth, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh, and whither it goeth: so is every one that is born of the Spirit. (John 3:8)
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones do grow in the womb of her that is with child: even so thou knowest not the works of God who maketh all. (Ecclesiastes 11:5)
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. (Jonah 1:4)
Out of the south cometh the whirlwind: and cold out of the north. (Job 37:9)
Therefore whosoever heareth these sayings of mine, and doeth them, I will liken him unto a wise man, which built his house upon a rock: (Matthew 7:24)