Parallel Verses
King James Version
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
New American Standard Bible
But the
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.
The Emphasized Bible
Generation, goeth and, generation, cometh, but, the earth, unto times age-abiding, remaineth.
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 a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? 4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever. 5 The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Cross References
Psalm 104:5
Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Genesis 5:3-31
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
Genesis 11:20-32
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug:
Genesis 36:9-19
And these are the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir:
Genesis 47:9
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
Exodus 1:6-7
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
Exodus 6:16-27
And these are the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi were an hundred thirty and seven years.
Psalm 89:47-48
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Psalm 90:9-10
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Psalm 102:24-28
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years are throughout all generations.
Psalm 119:90-91
Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knoweth what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as 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, do they live for ever?
Matthew 24:35
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
2 Peter 3:10-13
But the day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night; in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat, the earth also and the works that are therein shall be burned up.