“All things are full of labour; man cannot utter it: the eye is not satisfied with seeing, nor the ear filled with hearing.”
The declaration that "all things are full of weariness" and "the eye is not satisfied" captures the epistemological and existential exhaustion endemic to the human condition under the sun. Neither perception (eye) nor language (words) can adequately grasp or communicate the totality of experience, suggesting that wisdom's traditional tools—observation and articulation—face insurmountable limitations. This verse intimates that the very structures of human knowing may be fundamentally inadequate to penetrate ultimate reality or achieve lasting satisfaction.
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