Ecclesiastes 1:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁴One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

Ecclesiastes 1:4 —

Old words in this verse

abide: — stay, remain, live.

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Original word meaning

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 104:5
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed 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 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?
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Psalms 119:90-91
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. …

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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 lat…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

4. earth ... for ever--(Psa 104:5). While the earth remains the same, the generations of men are ever changing; what lasting profit, then, can there be from the toils of one whose sojourn on earth, as an individual, is so brief? The “for ever” is comparative, not absolute (Psa 102:26).