Ecclesiastes 1:4
One generation passeth, and another generation succeedeth: but the earth remaineth for euer.
Geneva Bible 1599
In The King James Version
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
In Context
3What remaineth vnto man in all his trauaile, which he suffereth vnder ye sunne?
5The sunne riseth, and ye sunne goeth downe, and draweth to his place, where he riseth.
Cross References
Genesis 5:3Nowe Adam liued an hundred and thirtie yeeres, and begate a childe in his owne likenes after his image, and called his name Sheth.
Genesis 36:9So these are the generations of Esau father of Edom in mount Seir.
Exodus 1:6Nowe Ioseph died and all his brethren, and that whole generation.
Psalms 89:47Remember of what time I am: wherefore shouldest thou create in vaine all the children of men?
Psalms 102:24And I sayd, O my God, take me not away in the middes of my dayes: thy yeeres endure from generation to generation.
Psalms 119:90Thy trueth is from generation to generation: thou hast layed the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.
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 →