Parallel Verses
Bible in Basic English
The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.
New American Standard Bible
And
King James Version
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Holman Bible
panting, it returns to its place
where it rises.
International Standard Version
The sun rises, the sun sets, then rushes back to where it arose.
A Conservative Version
The sun also arises, and the sun goes down and hastens to its place where it arises.
American Standard Version
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
Amplified
Also, the sun rises and the sun sets;
And hurries to the place where it rises again.
Darby Translation
The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
Julia Smith Translation
The sun arose and the sun went down, and panted after its place which it arose there.
King James 2000
The sun also arises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to its place where it arose.
Lexham Expanded Bible
The sun rises, and the sun goes down; to its place it hurries, and there it rises again.
Modern King James verseion
The sun also arises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it arose.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
The Sun ariseth, the sun goeth down, and returneth to his place, that he may there rise up again.
NET Bible
The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.
New Heart English Bible
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
The Emphasized Bible
And the sun, breaketh forth, and the sun, goeth in, - yea, unto his own place, he panteth, from whence he brake forth.
Webster
The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
World English Bible
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
Youngs Literal Translation
Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.
Interlinear
References
Fausets
Hastings
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 1:5
Verse Info
Context Readings
All Toil Is Profitless And Repetitious
4 One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever. 5 The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up. 6 The wind goes to the south, turning back again to the north; circling round for ever.
Cross References
Psalm 19:4-6
Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them has he put a tent for the sun,
Genesis 8:22
While the earth goes on, seed time and the getting in of the grain, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night, will not come to an end.
Joshua 10:13-14
And the sun was at rest and the moon kept its place till the nation had given punishment to their attackers. (Is it not recorded in the book of Jashar?) So the sun kept its place in the middle of the heavens, and was waiting, and did not go down, for the space of a day.
Psalm 42:1
Like the desire of the roe for the water-streams, so is my soul's desire for you, O God.
Psalm 89:36-37
His seed will not come to an end for ever; the seat of his kingdom will be like the sun before me.
Psalm 104:19-23
He made the moon for a sign of the divisions of the year; teaching the sun the time of its going down.
Jeremiah 33:20
The Lord has said: If it is possible for my agreement of the day and the night to be broken, so that day and night no longer come at their fixed times,
Habakkuk 3:11
At the light of your arrows they went away, at the shining of your polished spear.