Ecclesiastes 1:4

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Ecclesiastes 1:4

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

One generation

But

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Zechariah 1:5

Bible References

One generation

Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

Adam had been living for a hundred and thirty years when he had a son like himself, after his image, and gave him the name of Seth:

And Reu was thirty-two years old when he became the father of Serug:

And these are the generations of Esau, the father of the Edomites in the hill-country of Seir:

And Jacob said, The years of my wanderings have been a hundred and thirty; small in number and full of sorrow have been the years of my life, and less than the years of the wanderings of my fathers.

Then Joseph came to his end, and all his brothers, and all that generation.

And these are the names of the sons of Levi in the order of their generations: Gershon and Kohath and Merari: and the years of Levi's life were a hundred and thirty-seven.

See how short my time is; why have you made all men for no purpose?

Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?

But

He has made the earth strong on its bases, so that it may not be moved for ever and ever;

Your faith is unchanging from generation to generation: you have put the earth in its place, and it is not moved.

Heaven and earth will come to an end, but my words will not come to an end.

But the day of the Lord will come like a thief; and in that day the heavens will be rolled up with a great noise, and the substance of the earth will be changed by violent heat, and the world and everything in it will be burned up.

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Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they go on living for ever?