| Ecclesiastes 1:4 Parallel Translations |  |
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| NASB: | A generation goes and a generation comes, But the earth remains forever. (NASB ©1995) |
| GWT: | Generations come, and generations go, but the earth lasts forever.(GOD'S WORD®) |
| KJV: | One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. |
| ASV: | One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever. |
| BBE: | One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever. |
| DBY: | One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth standeth for ever. |
| ERV: | One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; and the earth abideth for ever. |
| JPS: | One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh; and the earth abideth for ever. |
| WBS: | One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. |
| WEB: | One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever. |
| YLT: | A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing. |
| Ecclesiastes 1:4 Cross References |
| XREF: | Psalm 104:5 He established the earth upon its foundations, So that it will not totter forever and ever.
Psalm 119:90 Your faithfulness continues throughout all generations; You established the earth, and it stands. (NASB ©1995) |
| Commentaries and Concordances |
| GSB: | 1:4 [One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh: but the earth abideth for {d} ever.
(d) One man dies after another, and the earth remains longest, even to the last day, which yet is subject to corruption. |
| WES: | 1:4 Passeth - Men continue but for one, and that a short age, and then they leave all their possessions, and therefore they cannot be happy here, because happiness must needs be unchangeable and eternal; or else the certain knowledge of the approaching loss of all these things will rob a man of solid contentment in them. Abideth - Through all successive generations of men; and therefore man is more mutable than the very earth upon which he stands, and which, together with all the comforts which he enjoyed in it, he leaves behind to be possessed by others. |
| MHC: | 1:4-8 All things change, and never rest. Man, after all his labour, is no nearer finding rest than the sun, the wind, or the current of the river. His soul will find no rest, if he has it not from God. The senses are soon tired, yet still craving what is untried. |
| CONC: | Abideth Age Forever Generation Generations Goes Passeth Remains Standeth Standing |
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