Ecclesiastes 1:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

Ecclesiastes 1:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 42:1
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.
Psalms 19:4-6
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, …
Habakkuk 3:11
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.
Joshua 10:13-14
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day. …
Psalms 89:36-37
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me. …

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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. 5)

5. (Psa 19:5, 6). “Panting” as the Hebrew for “hasteth”; metaphor, from a runner (Psa 19:5, “a strong man”) in a “race.” It applies rather to the rising sun, which seems laboriously to mount up to the meridian, than to the setting sun; the accents too favor Maurer, “And (that too, returning) to his place, where panting he riseth.”