Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; but the earth endureth for ever.
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
In Context
3What profit hath a man of all his toil which he toil-eth under the sun?
5The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and striving to reach his place he riseth again there.
Cross References
Genesis 5:3And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his likeness, after his image; and called his name Sheth.
Genesis 36:9And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edom in mount Seir.
Exodus 1:6And Joseph died, and all his brothers, and all that generation.
Psalms 89:47(89:48) Remember [what] I am, what my duration is [here], for what nothingness thou hast created all sons of men!
Psalms 102:24(102:25) I will say, O my God! take me not away in the midst of my days: throughout all generations are thy years.
Psalms 119:90Unto all generations endureth thy faithfulness: thou hast established the earth, and she 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 →