Ecclesiastes 1:4
A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth is standing for all time.
Literal Standard Version
In The King James Version
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
In Context
3What advantage [is] to man by all his labor that he labors at under the sun?
5Also, the sun has risen, and the sun has gone in, and to its place panting it is rising there.
Cross References
Genesis 5:3And Adam lives one hundred and thirty years [[ or two hundred and thirty years]], and begets [a son] in his likeness, according to his image, and calls his name Seth.
Genesis 36:9And these [are] the generations of Esau, father of Edom, in Mount Seir.
Exodus 1:6And Joseph dies, and all his brothers, and all that generation;
Psalms 89:47Remember how [short] my lifetime [is]. Why have You created in vain || All the sons of men?
Psalms 102:24I say, “My God, do not take me up in the midst of my days,” || Your years [are] through all generations.
Psalms 119:90Your faithfulness from generation to generation, || You established earth, and it stands.
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 →