Ecclesiastes 1:6

WEB

⁶The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north. It turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

KJV

⁶The wind^[+] goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits.

BSB

⁶The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.

FBV

⁶The wind blows south, and then turns to the north. Round and round it spins, finally coming full circle.

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Extra References

John 3:8

⁸The wind^[+] blows where it wants to, and you hear its sound, but don’t know where it comes from and where it is going. So is everyone who is born of the Spirit.”

Ecclesiastes 11:5

⁵As you don’t know what is the way of the wind, nor how the bones grow in the womb of her who is with child; even so you don’t know the work of God who does all.

Job 37:17

¹⁷You whose clothing is warm when the earth is still by reason of the south wind?

Psalms 107:29

²⁹He makes the storm a calm, so that its waves are still.

Job 37:9

⁹Out of its room comes the storm, and cold out of the north.

Psalms 107:25

²⁵For he commands, and raises the stormy wind, which lifts up its waves.

Matthew 7:24

²⁴“Everyone therefore who hears these words of mine and does them, I will liken him to a wise man who built his house on the rock.

Jonah 1:4

⁴But the LORD sent out a great wind on the sea, and there was a mighty storm on the sea, so that the ship was likely to break up.

¹³When the south wind blew softly, supposing that they had obtained their purpose, they weighed anchor and sailed along Crete, close to shore. ¹⁴But before long, a stormy wind beat down from shore, which is called Euroclydon.¹⁵^[+] When the ship was caught and couldn’t face the wind, we gave way to it and were driven along.

Matthew 7:27

²⁷The rain came down, the floods came, and the winds blew and beat on that house; and it fell—and its fall was great.”