Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation goes, and another generation comes, but the earth abides forever.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
In Context
3What profit has man from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?
5The sun also arises, and the sun goes down and hastens to its place where it arises.
Cross References
Genesis 5:3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot [a son] in his own likeness, according to his image, and called his name Seth.
Genesis 36:9And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
Exodus 1:6And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
Psalms 89:47O remember how short my time is, for what vanity thou have created all the sons of men!
Psalms 102:24I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days. Thy years are throughout all generations.
Psalms 119:90Thy faithfulness is to all generations. Thou have established the earth, and it abides.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 1:2-4
Ecclesiastes We are still among Solomon's happy men, his happy servants, that stood continually before him to hear his wisdom; and they are the choicest of all the dictates of his wisdom, such as were more immediately given by divine inspiration, that are here transmitted to us, not to be heard, as by them, but once, and then liable to be mistaken or forgotten, and by repetition to lose their beauty, but to be read, reviewed, revolved, and had in everlasting remembrance. The account we have of Solomon's apostasy… Read the whole commentary →