Ecclesiastes 1:4

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 1:4

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

One generation

But

2 Peter 3:10

General references

Zechariah 1:5

Bible References

One generation

For who knows what is good for a man during his lifetime, during the few years of his futile life? He will spend them like a shadow. For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

When Adam had lived one hundred and thirty years, he became the father of a son in his own likeness, according to his image, and named him Seth.

Reu lived thirty-two years, and became the father of Serug;

These then are the records of the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in the hill country of Seir.

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The

years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

Joseph died, and all his brothers and all that generation.

These are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari; and the length of Levi’s life was one hundred and thirty-seven years.

Remember what my span of life is;

For what vanity You have created all the sons of men!

For all our days have declined in Your fury;
We have finished our years like a sigh.

“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?

But

I say, “O my God, do not take me away in the midst of my days,
Your years are throughout all generations.

He established the earth upon its foundations,
So that it will not totter forever and ever.

Your faithfulness continues throughout all generations;
You established the earth, and it stands.

Heaven and earth will pass away, but My words will not pass away.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief, in which the heavens will pass away with a roar and the elements will be destroyed with intense heat, and the earth and its works will be burned up.

General references

“Your fathers, where are they? And the prophets, do they live forever?