Ecclesiastes 1:4
A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.
Young's Literal Translation
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 labour that he laboureth at under the sun?
5Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.
Cross References
Genesis 5:3And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth [a son] in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth.
Genesis 36:9And these [are] births of Esau, father of Edom, in mount Seir.
Exodus 1:6And Joseph dieth, and all his brethren, and all that generation;
Psalms 89:47Remember, I pray Thee, what [is] life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?
Psalms 102:24I say, 'My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations [are] Thine years.
Psalms 119:90To all generations Thy faithfulness, Thou didst establish 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 →