Ecclesiastes 1:4 - The Scriptures 2009

⁴ A generation passes away, and a generation comes, but the earth stands 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.

Ecclesiastes 1:4 Cross References

Genesis 47:9

And Ya‛aqoḇ said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

Psalm 104:5

He established the earth on its foundations, So that it would not totter forever,

Psalm 125:1

Those who trust in יהוה Are like Mount Tsiyon – It is not shaken, it remains forever.

Ecclesiastes 6:12

For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his futile life, which he passes like a shadow? For who declares to man what shall be after him, under the sun?

Zechariah 1:5

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

Matthew 24:35

“The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but My words shall by no means pass away.

Luke 20:32

“And last of all the woman died too.