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 a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?

And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth a son in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth.

And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug.

And these are births of Esau, father of Edom, in mount Seir.

And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, 'The days of the years of my sojournings are an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'

And Joseph dieth, and all his brethren, and all that generation;

And these are the names of the sons of Levi, as to their births: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi are a hundred and thirty and seven years.

Remember, I pray Thee, what is life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men?

For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation.

Your fathers -- where are they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?

But

I say, 'My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations are Thine years.

He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.

To all generations Thy faithfulness, Thou didst establish earth, and it standeth.

The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.

and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up.

General references

Your fathers -- where are they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?