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 knoweth what is good for man living, in the days of his vain life, which is but a shadow? Or, who will tell a man what shall happen after him under the Sun?

And when Adam was a hundred and thirty years old, he begat a son after his likeness and similitude: and called his name Seth.

And Reu, when he had lived thirty two years, begat Serug,

These are the generations of Esau, father of the Edomites, in mount Seir,

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."

When Joseph was dead, and all his brethren and all that generation;

These are the names of the children of Levi in their generations: Gershon, Kohath and Merari. And Levi lived a hundred and thirty seven years.

O remember how short my time is; hast thou made all men for nought?

For when thou art angry, all our days are gone; we bring our years to an end, as it were a tale that is told.

What is now become of your forefathers and the prophets? Are they yet still alive?

But

Yet will I say, "O my God, take me not away in the midst of my age; as for thy years, they endure throughout all generations."

Thou hast laid the foundations of the earth, that it never should move at any time.

Thy truth also remaineth from one generation to another; thou hast laid the foundation of the earth, and it abideth.

Heaven and earth shall perish: but my words shall abide.

Nevertheless, the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the which day, the heavens shall perish with terrible noise, and the elements shall melt with heat, and the earth, with the works that are therein, shall burn.

General references

What is now become of your forefathers and the prophets? Are they yet still alive?