Ecclesiastes 1:4 - Tree of Life Version A generation comes, and a generation goes, but the earth remains forever. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing 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. |
Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourn are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. Moreover, the days of the years of my life have not attained the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojourn.”
He set the earth upon its foundations, so it should not totter forever and ever.
A Song of Ascents. Those who trust in Adonai are like Mount Zion— it cannot be moved, but endures forever.
For who knows what is good for one during his life—during the few days of his fleeting life—that pass like a shadow? For who can tell a person what happens after him under the sun?
“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?