Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
In Context
3What hath a man more of all his labour, that he taketh under the sun?
5The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again,
Cross References
Genesis 5:3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son to his own image and likeness, and called his name Seth.
Genesis 36:9And these are the generations of Esau the father of Edom in mount Seir,
Exodus 1:6After he was dead, and all his brethren, and all that generation,
Psalms 89:47How long, O Lord, turnest thou away unto the end? shall thy anger burn like fire?
Psalms 102:24He answered him in the way of his strength: Declare unto me the fewness of my days.
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 →