Parallel Verses
Modern King James verseion
A generation passes away, and a generation comes; but the earth remains forever.
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 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 is the profit to a man in all his labor which he labors under the sun? 4 A generation passes away, and a generation comes; but the earth remains forever. 5 The sun also arises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it arose.
Cross References
Psalm 104:5
He laid the earth on its foundations; it shall not be shaken forever.
Genesis 5:3-31
And Adam lived one hundred and thirty years and fathered a son in his own likeness, after his own image. And he called his name Seth.
Genesis 11:20-32
And Reu lived thirty-two years and fathered 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 to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and I have not attained to 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 brothers, and all that generation.
Exodus 6:16-27
And these were 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 a hundred and thirty-seven years.
Psalm 89:47-48
Remember, I pray, how short my time is; why have You made all men in vain?
Psalm 90:9-10
For all our days pass away in Your wrath; we finish our years like a murmur.
Psalm 102:24-28
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days; Your years are through the generation of generations.
Psalm 119:90-91
Your faithfulness is to all generations; You have founded the earth, and it remains.
Ecclesiastes 6:12
For who knows what is good for man in life, all the days of his vain life which he spends 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 forever?
Matthew 24:35
The heaven and the 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 which the heavens will pass away with a rushing noise, and the elements will melt with fervent heat. And the earth and the works in it will be burned up.