Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; and the earth abideth for ever.
JPS TaNaKH 1917
In The King James Version
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
In Context
3What profit hath man of all his labour wherein he laboureth under the sun?
5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he ariseth.
Cross References
Genesis 5:3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begot a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.
Genesis 36:9And these are the generations of Esau the father of a the Edomites in the mountain-land of Seir.
Exodus 1:6And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Psalms 89:47(89-48) O remember how short my time is; for what vanity hast Thou created all the children of men!
Psalms 102:24(102-25) I say: 'O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days, Thou whose years endure throughout all generations.
Psalms 119:90Thy faithfulness is unto all generations; Thou hast established the earth, and it standeth.
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 →