Ecclesiastes 1:4 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

⁴ One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁴ One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ One generation goes and another generation comes, but the earth remains forever. [Ps. 119:90.]

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.

Common English Bible

⁴ A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains as it always has.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ A generation passes away, and a generation arrives. But the earth stands forever.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 1:4 Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Psalm 104:5

who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.

Psalm 125:1

They that trust in the Lord shall be as mount Zion, which cannot be removed, but abideth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

Zechariah 1:5

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?

Matthew 24:35

Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

Luke 20:32

Last of all the woman died also.