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OET (OET-RV) Everything is wearisome—not even worth talking about.
⇔ The eyes never stop seeing,
⇔ and your ears never fill up with everything they hear.
OET-LV All_of the_things are_wearisome not anyone he_is_able to_say not an_eye it_is_satisfied to_see and_not an_ear it_is_filled with_hearing.
UHB כָּל־הַדְּבָרִ֣ים יְגֵעִ֔ים לֹא־יוּכַ֥ל אִ֖ישׁ לְדַבֵּ֑ר לֹא־תִשְׂבַּ֥ע עַ֨יִן֙ לִרְא֔וֹת וְלֹא־תִמָּלֵ֥א אֹ֖זֶן מִשְּׁמֹֽעַ׃ ‡
(kāl-haddəⱱārim yəgēˊim loʼ-yūkal ʼiysh lədabēr loʼ-tisbaˊ ˊayin lirəʼōt vəloʼ-timmālēʼ ʼozen mishshəmoˊa.)
Key: khaki:verbs, red:negative.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).
BrLXX Πάντες οἱ λόγοι ἔγκοποι, οὐ δυνήσεται ἀνὴρ τοῦ λαλεῖν· καὶ οὐ πλησθήσεται ὀφθαλμὸς τοῦ ὁρᾷν, καὶ οὐ πληρωθήσεται οὖς ἀπὸ ἀκροάσεως.
(Pantes hoi logoi egkopoi, ou dunaʸsetai anaʸr tou lalein; kai ou plaʸsthaʸsetai ofthalmos tou horan, kai ou plaʸrōthaʸsetai ous apo akroaseōs. )
BrTr All things are full of labour; 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.
ULT All things are wearisome;
⇔ a person is not able to speak.
⇔ An eye is not satisfied of seeing,
⇔ and an ear is not filled from hearing.
UST Everything is so unsatisfactory
⇔ that we do not even want to talk about it.
⇔ We see the same things,
⇔ and we become bored with them.
⇔ We hear the same things,
⇔ but we want to hear something more.
BSB All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
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MSB All things are wearisome, more than one can describe; the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear content with hearing.
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OEB All things are full or weariness,
⇔ Of weariness unutterable,
⇔ With all that it sees hath the eye no rest,
⇔ And with all that it hears is the ear unfilled.
WEBBE All things are full of weariness beyond uttering. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
WMBB (Same as above)
MSG (2-11)Smoke, nothing but smoke. [That’s what the Quester says.]
There’s nothing to anything—it’s all smoke.
What’s there to show for a lifetime of work,
a lifetime of working your fingers to the bone?
One generation goes its way, the next one arrives,
but nothing changes—it’s business as usual for old planet earth.
The sun comes up and the sun goes down,
then does it again, and again—the same old round.
The wind blows south, the wind blows north.
Around and around and around it blows,
blowing this way, then that—the whirling, erratic wind.
All the rivers flow into the sea,
but the sea never fills up.
The rivers keep flowing to the same old place,
and then start all over and do it again.
Everything’s boring, utterly boring—
no one can find any meaning in it.
Boring to the eye,
boring to the ear.
What was will be again,
what happened will happen again.
There’s nothing new on this earth.
Year after year it’s the same old thing.
Does someone call out, “Hey, this is new”?
Don’t get excited—it’s the same old story.
Nobody remembers what happened yesterday.
And the things that will happen tomorrow?
Nobody’ll remember them either.
Don’t count on being remembered.
NET All this monotony is tiresome; no one can bear to describe it:
⇔ The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor is the ear ever content with hearing.
LSV All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor is the ear filled from hearing.
FBV Everything just keeps on going. You can't say all there is to say. You can't see all there is to see. You can't hear all there is to hear.[fn]
1:8 Literally, “man is not able to utter, the eye is not satisfied to see, the ear is not filled with hearing.”
T4T Everything is boring,
⇔ with the result that we do not even want to talk about it.
⇔ We [SYN] see things,
⇔ but we always want to see more.
⇔ We [SYN] hear things,
⇔ but we always want to hear more.
LEB No LEB ECC book available
BBE All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.
Moff No Moff ECC book available
JPS All things toil to weariness; man cannot utter it, the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
ASV All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
DRA All things are hard: man cannot explain them by word. The eye is not filled with seeing, neither is the ear filled with hearing.
YLT All these things are wearying; a man is not able to speak, the eye is not satisfied by seeing, nor filled is the ear from hearing.
Drby All things are full of toil; none can express it. The eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
RV All things are full of weariness; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
SLT All words becoming weary; man shall not be able to speak: the eye shall not be satisfied to see, and the ear shall not be filled from hearing.
Wbstr All things are full of labor; man cannot utter it : the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
KJB-1769 All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.
KJB-1611 All things are full of labour, man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above, apart from punctuation)
Bshps No Bshps ECC book available
Gnva All things are full of labour: man cannot vtter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the eare filled with hearing.
(All things are full of labour: man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing. )
Cvdl No Cvdl ECC book available
Wycl No Wycl ECC book available
Luth No Luth ECC book available
ClVg Cunctæ res difficiles; non potest eas homo explicare sermone. Non saturatur oculus visu, nec auris auditu impletur.[fn]
(Cunctæ res difficults; not/no can them human explicare speechne. Not/No saturatur the_eye visu, but_not ear listensu impletur. )
1.8 Cunctæ res difficiles. Non potest homo causas et naturas rerum explicare, nec oculus ad plenum intueri, nec auris, instruente doctore, ad summam scientiam pervenire. Videmus enim nunc per speculum in ænigmate et ex parte, donec veniat quod perfectum est I Cor. 13., quod in hoc mortali corpore esse non poterit. Hæc sententia contra eos est qui sine labore et dicendi studio sanctas Scripturas se novisse putant, et se sapientes, cum insipientes sint.
1.8 Cunctæ res difficults. Not/No can human causes and naturas rerum explicare, but_not the_eye to plenum intueri, but_not auris, instructnte doctore, to sum/totalm knowledge pervenire. Seemus because now through speculum in/into/on ænigmate and from in_part/partly, until let_him_come that perfectum est I Cor. 13., that in/into/on this mortali corpore to_be not/no will_be_able. This sententia on_the_contrary them it_is who without with_hard_work and sayendi studio holys Scripturas himself newsse they_think, and himself wise_people, when/with unwise let_them_be.
RP-GNT No RP-GNT ECC book available
1:2-11 The Teacher begins by observing that each natural and historical activity is accentuated by its circular repetitive rhythm of coming and going, being and not being. This can lead to the despairing cry that everything is meaningless. The Teacher moves rapidly from subject to subject and finishes this section with the topic he started with, using a literary pattern that mirrors the circularity he describes in nature and in human history.
(Occurrence 0) Everything becomes wearisome
(Some words not found in UHB: all/each/any/every the,things wearisome not he/it_would_be_able (a)_man to,say not satisfied eye to=see and=not filled ear with,hearing )
“Everything becomes tiring.” Since man is unable to explain these things, it becomes useless to try.
Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
(Occurrence 0) The eye is not satisfied by what it sees
(Some words not found in UHB: all/each/any/every the,things wearisome not he/it_would_be_able (a)_man to,say not satisfied eye to=see and=not filled ear with,hearing )
Here the “eye” represents the whole person. Alternate translation: “A person is not satisfied by what his eyes see”
Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / synecdoche
(Occurrence 0) nor is the ear fulfilled by what it hears
(Some words not found in UHB: all/each/any/every the,things wearisome not he/it_would_be_able (a)_man to,say not satisfied eye to=see and=not filled ear with,hearing )
Here the “ear” represents the whole person. Alternate translation: “nor is a person content by what his ears hear”