6 The wind goeth toward the │ III. Going southwards, and south, and turneth about unto │ twisting northwards, twisting, the north; it whirleth about │ twisting goes the blast; and continually, and the wind │ so with all its twistings the returneth again according to │ wind returns. his circuits. │ (6.) =Going= (_i.e._ ‘walking,’ ‘proceeding,’ as in verse 4) =towards the south= (the quarter of warm winds), and =turning round towards the north= (the place of cold), =turning turns, going the wind= (there is in the Hebrew a concourse of sibilant letters imitating the sound of the wind, which is attempted to be rendered in the paraphrase), =and in its turnings returns the wind= (that is, ever goes round in the same circuits, as the Authorized Version translates). Thus we have an allusion to the four cardinal points of the universe, North, South, East, and West. 7 All the rivers run into │ IV. All the torrents are the sea; yet the sea _is_ │ running towards the sea, that not full; unto the place │ sea which never overflows; from whence the rivers come, │ to the place where these thither they ¹return again. │ torrents are hastening, │ thither they are only ¹ _Hebrew_ return to go. │ returning to go back. (7.) =All the torrents= (נחל, a mountain stream especially) =are going to the sea, and the sea it is not full= (equivalent to ‘that sea which is never filled or any fuller’), =to the place= to =which the rivers= (contract relative, meaning these _same_ rivers) =are going, thence are they returning to go back.= (So the LXX.; others with the Authorized Version translate, ‘Thither they return again.’) It is to be remarked that this fact is scientifically accurate in statement. The Targum has the gloss that the rivers flow into the ocean which _surrounds the world like a ring_, and that they return again through the _subterranean channels_, but Koheleth knows nothing of such false philosophy. 8 All things _are_ full of │ V. All matters are fatiguing; labour; man cannot utter _it_: │ impossible for any one to the eye is not satisfied with │ reason out. Never is the eye seeing, nor the ear filled │ satisfied by seeing, nor ever with hearing. │ the ear filled with sound.