Ecclesiastes 1:4
A generation passes away, and a generation arrives. But the earth stands forever.
Catholic Public Domain Version
In The King James Version
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
In Context
3What more does a man have from all his labor, as he labors under the sun?
5The sun rises and sets; it returns to its place, and from there, being born again,
Cross References
Genesis 5:3Then Adam lived for one hundred and thirty years. And then he conceived a son in his own image and likeness, and he called his name Seth.
Genesis 36:9So these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom, at mount Seir,
Exodus 1:6When he had died, along with all of his brothers and all of that generation,
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 →