Ecclesiastes 1:5

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The sun rises, and the sun sets, and it hurries back to where it rises.

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  • Ps 19:4-6 : 4 There is no speech; there are no words; their voice is not heard. 5 Yet their message has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens, He has pitched a tent for the sun. 6 It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.
  • Hab 3:11 : 11 The sun and moon stood still in their places at the light of Your arrows as they flew, at the flash of Your shining spear.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 For as long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease."
  • Josh 10:13-14 : 13 And the sun stood still, and the moon halted until the nation took vengeance on their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down for about a full day. 14 There has never been a day like it, before or since, when the LORD listened to a human being, because the LORD fought for Israel.
  • Ps 42:1 : 1 For the director of music, a contemplative psalm of the sons of Korah.
  • Ps 89:36-37 : 36 Once I have sworn by my holiness; I will not lie to David: 37 His offspring will endure forever, and his throne will be like the sun before me.
  • Ps 104:19-23 : 19 He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to set. 20 You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the animals of the forest come out. 21 The young lions roar for their prey, seeking their food from God. 22 The sun rises, and they withdraw and lie down in their dens. 23 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.
  • Jer 33:20 : 20 This is what the Lord says: If you could break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night would not come at their appointed time,

Similar Verses (AI)

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  • Eccl 1:1-4
    4 verses
    83%

    1The words of the Teacher, son of David, king in Jerusalem.

    2“Utterly meaningless!” says the Teacher. “Utterly meaningless! Everything is meaningless.”

    3What does man gain from all his labor at which he toils under the sun?

    4Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.

  • Eccl 1:6-7
    2 verses
    83%

    6The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course.

    7All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place where the streams come from, there they return again.

  • Eccl 1:9-10
    2 verses
    76%

    9What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.

    10Is there anything of which one can say, 'Look! This is something new'? It was here already, long ago; it was here before our time.

  • Eccl 5:16
    76%

    16Throughout his days, he eats in darkness, with great frustration, sickness, and anger.

  • Eccl 11:7-8
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    76%

    7Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.

    8For if a person lives many years, let him rejoice in all of them, but let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is meaningless.

  • Jas 1:11
    76%

    11For the sun rises with its scorching heat, and withers the grass; its flower falls, and its beauty perishes. In the same way, the rich person will fade away in the midst of his pursuits.

  • Eccl 12:2
    76%

    2Before the sun, light, moon, and stars grow dark, and the clouds return after the rain.

  • Ps 19:4-6
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    75%

    4There is no speech; there are no words; their voice is not heard.

    5Yet their message has gone out into all the earth, and their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens, He has pitched a tent for the sun.

    6It is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his course.

  • Ps 104:19
    75%

    19He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to set.

  • Ps 104:22-23
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    74%

    22The sun rises, and they withdraw and lie down in their dens.

    23Man goes out to his work and to his labor until evening.

  • Ps 103:16
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    16The wind blows over it, and it is gone, and its place remembers it no more.

  • Eccl 3:20-21
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    74%

    20All go to the same place; all come from dust, and to dust all return.

    21Who knows if the spirit of man rises upward and if the spirit of the animal goes down to the earth?

  • Eccl 3:1
    74%

    1There is a time for everything and a season for every activity under the heavens.

  • Eccl 4:7
    73%

    7Again, I turned and saw meaninglessness under the sun.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
    2 verses
    73%

    15I saw all the living who walk under the sun following the youth, the second one, who replaces him.

    16There is no end to all the people who were before them, yet those who come later will not rejoice in him. This too is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

  • Eccl 6:4-5
    2 verses
    73%

    4For it comes in vain and departs in darkness, and its name is covered in darkness.

    5Though it has never seen the sun or known anything, it has more rest than that man.

  • Eccl 1:14
    73%

    14I have seen all the deeds that are done under the sun; they are all meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

  • Job 9:7
    72%

    7He commands the sun not to rise, and seals up the stars.

  • Eccl 6:12
    72%

    12For who knows what is good for a person in life, during the few days of their fleeting life? They pass like a shadow. Who can tell them what will happen under the sun after they are gone?

  • Eccl 12:7-8
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    72%

    7And the dust returns to the earth as it once was, and the spirit returns to God who gave it.

    8'Utter futility,' says the Teacher. 'Everything is futile!'

  • Ps 50:1
    72%

    1The Mighty One, God, the LORD, has spoken and summoned the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

  • Eccl 2:20
    72%

    20So I turned my heart to despair over all the hard work with which I had labored under the sun.

  • Eccl 3:15-16
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    71%

    15Whatever has already been, and what will be has already been; and God seeks what has been pursued.

    16And I saw under the sun, in the place of judgment, wickedness was there, and in the place of righteousness, wickedness was there as well.

  • Job 14:2
    71%

    2He springs up like a flower and withers away; he flees like a shadow and does not endure.

  • Ps 90:6
    71%

    6In the morning it flourishes and grows, but by evening it withers and dries up.

  • Job 14:11
    71%

    11As the waters of a lake dry up or a riverbed becomes parched and dry,

  • Eccl 2:11
    71%

    11Yet when I considered all that my hands had done and the toil I had expended in doing it, behold, everything was meaningless—a chasing after the wind. There was nothing to be gained under the sun.

  • Job 31:26
    71%

    26if I have looked at the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

  • Eccl 3:11
    70%

    11He has made everything beautiful in its time. Also, He has put eternity in the human heart, yet no one can fathom what God has done from beginning to end.

  • Eccl 8:16
    70%

    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to observe the work that is done on earth, even though people do not see sleep with their eyes day or night,

  • Eccl 6:1
    70%

    1There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is great upon humanity.

  • Job 7:9
    70%

    9As a cloud vanishes and is gone, so one who goes down to the grave does not return.

  • Eccl 2:22
    70%

    22What does a person gain from all their labor and from the striving of their heart under the sun?

  • Eccl 8:10
    70%

    10Then I saw the wicked buried, who used to go in and out of the holy place, but now they are forgotten in the city where they acted this way. This too is meaningless.