Ecclesiastes 1:5
Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.
Young's Literal Translation
In The King James Version
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
In Context
4A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.
Cross References
Genesis 8:22during all days of the earth, seed-time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night, do not cease.'
Psalms 19:4Into all the earth hath their line gone forth, And to the end of the world their sayings, For the sun He placed a tent in them,
Psalms 42:1To the Overseer. — An Instruction. By sons of Korah. As a hart doth pant for streams of water, So my soul panteth toward Thee, O God.
Psalms 104:19He made the moon for seasons, The sun hath known his place of entrance.
Habakkuk 3:11Sun — moon — hath stood — a habitation, At the light thine arrows go on, At the brightness, the glittering of thy spear.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 1:5-9
The Vanity of the World. 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. 6 The wind goeth toward the south, and turneth about unto the north; it whirleth about continually, and the wind returneth again according to his circuits. 7 All the rivers run into the sea; yet the sea is not full; unto the place from whence the rivers come, thither they return again. 8 All things are full of… Read the whole commentary →