Parallel Verses
The Emphasized Bible
Generation, goeth and, generation, cometh, but, the earth, unto times age-abiding, remaineth.
New American Standard Bible
But the
King James Version
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
Holman Bible
but the earth remains forever.
International Standard Version
A generation goes, a generation comes, but the earth remains forever.
A Conservative Version
One generation goes, and another generation comes, but the earth abides forever.
American Standard Version
One generation goeth, and another generation cometh; but the earth abideth for ever.
Amplified
One generation goes and another generation comes,
But the earth remains forever.
Bible in Basic English
One generation goes and another comes; but the earth is for ever.
Darby Translation
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh, but the earth standeth for ever.
Julia Smith Translation
A generation went away, and a generation came: and the earth stood forever.
King James 2000
One generation passes away, and another generation comes: but the earth abides forever.
Lexham Expanded Bible
A generation goes, and a generation comes, but the earth stands forever.
Modern King James verseion
A generation passes away, and a generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
One generation passeth away, another cometh, but the earth abideth still.
NET Bible
A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains the same through the ages.
New Heart English Bible
One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
Webster
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
World English Bible
One generation goes, and another generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
Youngs Literal Translation
A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.
Themes
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Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 1:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
All Toil Is Profitless And Repetitious
3 What profit hath Man, in all his toil wherewith he toileth under the sun? 4 Generation, goeth and, generation, cometh, but, the earth, unto times age-abiding, remaineth. 5 And the sun, breaketh forth, and the sun, goeth in, - yea, unto his own place, he panteth, from whence he brake forth.
Cross References
Psalm 104:5
He hath fixed the earth on its foundations, It is not to be shaken, to times age-abiding and beyond.
Genesis 5:3-31
And Adam lived a hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his likeness after his image, - and called his name Seth:
Genesis 11:20-32
And Reu lived thirty-two years - and begat Serug;
Genesis 36:9-19
And, these, are the generations of Esau father of Edom, - in Mount Seir.
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my sojournings, have been a hundred and thirty years, - Few and evil, have been the days of the years of my life, neither have they attained unto the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.
Exodus 1:6-7
So then Joseph died and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Exodus 6:16-27
And, these, are the names of the sons of Levi by their generations, Gershon, and Kohath and Merari, And, the years of the life of Levi, were a hundred and thirty-seven years.
Psalm 89:47-48
Remember how short-lived, I, am, Wherefore, in vain, hast thou created all the sons of Adam?
Psalm 90:9-10
For, all our days, decline in thy wrath, - We end our years like a sigh.
Psalm 102:24-28
I said, O my GOD, do not remove me in the midst of my days, Throughout the generation of generations, are thy years;
Psalm 119:90-91
To generation after generation, is thy faithfulness, Thou hast established the earth, and it standeth.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for a man throughout his life, for the number of the days of his life of vanity, seeing he will make them, like a shadow, - for who can tell a man, what shall be after him, under the sun?
Zechariah 1:5
Your fathers, where are they? and, the prophets, to times age-abiding, do they live?
Matthew 24:35
The heaven and the earth, shall pass away, but, my words, shall, in nowise, pass away.
2 Peter 3:10-13
Howbeit the day of the Lord will be here, as a thief, - in which, the heavens, with a rushing noise, will pass away, while, elements, becoming intensely hot, will be dissolved, and, earth, and the works therein, will be discovered.