Ecclesiastes 1:4
A generation goes, and a generation comes: 1 But the earth stands forever. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
In The King James Version
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
In Context
3What advantage is there to a man 1 In all his labor that he takes under the sun? 1
5And the sun arises, and the sun goes down 1 And draws toward its place; 1
Cross References
Genesis 5:3And Adam lived two hundred and thirty years, and begot a son after his own form, and after his own image, and he called his name Seth.
Genesis 36:9And these are the generations of Esau, the father of Edom in the Mount Seir.
Exodus 1:6And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all 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 →