Ecclesiastes 1:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁴ A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

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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

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my earthly sojourn are one hundred thirty; few and hard have been the years of my life. They do not compare with the years of the life of my ancestors during their long sojourn.”

Psalm 104:5

You set the earth on its foundations, so that it shall never be shaken.

Psalm 125:1

Those who trust in the Lord are like Mount Zion, which cannot be moved but abides forever.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for mortals while they live the few days of their vain life, which they pass like a shadow? For who can tell them what will be after them under the sun?

Zechariah 1:5

Your ancestors, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

Matthew 24:35

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

Luke 20:32

Finally the woman also died.