Ecclesiastes 1:6
Good News Translation
The wind blows south, the wind blows north--round and round and back again.

New Revised Standard Version
The wind blows to the south, and goes around to the north; round and round goes the wind, and on its circuits the wind returns.

Contemporary English Version
The wind blows south, the wind blows north; round and round it blows over and over again.

New American Bible
Shifting south, then north, back and forth shifts the wind, constantly shifting its course.

Douay-Rheims Bible
Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits.

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits.

Job 3:8 Let them curse it who curse the day, who are ready to raise up a leviathan:

Acts 27:13-15 And the south wind gently blowing, thinking that they had obtained their purpose, when they had loosed from Asson, they sailed close by Crete. . . .

Context
Everything is Futile
5The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again, 6Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits.7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.…
Cross References
John 3:8
The Spirit breatheth where he will and thou hearest his voice: but thou knowest not whence he cometh and whither he goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit.

Ecclesiastes 1:7
All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea doth not overflow: unto the place from whence the rivers come, they return, to flow again.

Ecclesiastes 11:5
As thou knowest not what is the way of the spirit, nor how the bones are joined together in the womb of her that is with child: so thou knowest not the works of God, who is the maker of all.

Ecclesiastes 1:5
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