Ecclesiastes 1:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

⁴ One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; and 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.

Ecclesiastes 1:4 Cross References

Psalm 104:5

Who laid the foundations of the earth, That it should not be moved for ever.

Zechariah 1:5

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

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knoweth what is good for man in his 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?

Matthew 24:35

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

Genesis 47:9

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

Psalm 125:1

They that trust in the LORD Are as mount Zion, which cannot be moved, but abideth for ever.

Luke 20:32

Afterward the woman also died.