Holy Scripture
Ecclesiastes 1:7
A church father on this verse
“The waters that the earth drank on the first day were not salty. Even if these waters were like the deep on the surface of the earth, they were not yet seas. For it was in the seas that these waters, which were not salty before being gathered together, became salty. When they were sent throughout the entire earth for…”
Source: Septuagint
Original
7All the rivers run into the sea; And yet the sea is not filled: To the place whence the rivers come, Thither they return again.
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5And the sun arises, and the sun goes down And draws toward its place;
6Arising there it proceeds southward, And goes round toward the north. The wind goes round and round, And the wind returns to its circuits.
— Ecclesiastes 1:7 —
8All things are full of labor; A man will not be able to speak of them: Neither shall the eye be satisfied with seeing, Neither shall the ear be filled with hearing.
9What is that which has been? the very thing which shall be: And what is that which has been done? the very thing which shall be done: And there is no new thing under the sun.