Ecclesiastes 1:4
dOne generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: ebut the earth abideth for ever.
One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
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Psalms 89:46 How long, LORD? wilt thou hide thyself for ever? shall thy wrath burn like fire?
Psalms 89:47 Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
Psalms 90:9 For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
Job 14:2 He cometh forth like a flower, and is cut down: he fleeth also as a shadow, and continueth not.
Job 14:20 Thou prevailest for ever against him, and he passeth: thou changest his countenance, and sendest him away.
Zechariah 1:5 Your fathers, where are they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
e:
Psalms 104:5 Who laid the foundations of the earth, that it should not be removed for ever.
Psalms 119:90 Thy faithfulness is unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth.
2 Peter 3:10-3:13 10. 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. 11. Seeing then that all these things shall be dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to be in all holy conversation and godliness, 12. Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat? 13. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
Ecclesiastes 1:9 The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
men continue but for one, and that a short age, and then they leave all their possessions to the succeeding age; and therefore they cannot be happy here, because happiness must needs be unchangeable and eternal; or else the perpetual fear and certain knowledge of the approaching loss of all these things will rob a man of all solid contentment in them.
i.e. through all successive generations of men; and therefore man in this respect is more mutable and miserable than the very earth upon which he stands; and which, together with all the glories and comforts which he enjoyed in it, he leaveth behind him to be possessed by others.