4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
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Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
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?
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 4-8)To prove the vanity of all things under the sun, and their insufficiency to make us happy, Solomon here shows, 1. That the time of our enjoyment of these things is very short, and only while we accomplish as a hireling his day . We continue in the world but for one generation, which is continually passing away to make room for another, and we are passing with it. Our worldly possessions we very la…
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