Ecclesiastes 1:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI) A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains for ever. More versionsKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition One generation goes and another generation comes, but the earth remains forever. [Ps. 119:90.] American Standard Version (1901) One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever. Common English Bible A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains as it always has. Catholic Public Domain Version A generation passes away, and a generation arrives. But the earth stands forever. Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever. |
And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
Thou didst set the earth on its foundations, so that it should never be shaken.
Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abides for ever.
For who knows what is good for man while he lives the few days of his vain life, which he passes like a shadow? For who can tell man what will be after him under the sun?