Ecclesiastes 1:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it arose.

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  • Ps 19:4-6 : 4 Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun, 5 Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race. 6 His going forth is from the end of heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.
  • Hab 3:11 : 11 The sun and moon stood still in their habitation; at the light of Your arrows they went, and at the shining of Your glittering spear.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remains, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.
  • Josh 10:13-14 : 13 So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and did not hasten to go down for about a whole day. 14 And there was no day like that before it or after it, that the LORD heeded the voice of a man; for the LORD fought for Israel.
  • Ps 42:1 : 1 As the deer pants after the water brooks, so my soul pants after You, O God.
  • Ps 89:36-37 : 36 His seed shall endure forever, and his throne as the sun before me. 37 It shall be established forever like the moon, and like a faithful witness in heaven. Selah.
  • Ps 104:19-23 : 19 He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows its setting. 20 You make darkness, and it is night: in which all the beasts of the forest creep forth. 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. 22 The sun rises, they gather themselves together, and lie down in their dens. 23 Man goes out to his work and to his labor until the evening.
  • Jer 33:20 : 20 Thus says the LORD: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so there should not be day and night in their season,

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  • Eccl 1:1-4
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    1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

    2Vanity of vanities, says the Preacher, vanity of vanities; all is vanity.

    3What profit does a man have from all his labor which he does under the sun?

    4One generation passes away, and another generation comes, but the earth remains forever.

  • Eccl 1:6-7
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    6The wind goes toward the south, and turns around to the north; it whirls around continually, and the wind returns again according to its circuits.

    7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full; to the place from where the rivers come, there they return again.

  • Eccl 1:9-10
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    9The thing that has 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.

    10Is there anything of which it may be said, See, this is new? It has already been in ancient times, which were before us.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

  • Eccl 11:7-8
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    7Truly the light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun.

    8But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Jas 1:11
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    11For the sun rises with a burning heat, and it withers the grass, and its flower falls, and the beauty of its appearance perishes: so also will the rich man fade away in his pursuits.

  • Eccl 12:2
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    2While the sun, or the light, or the moon, or the stars are not darkened, nor the clouds return after the rain.

  • Ps 19:4-6
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    4Their line has gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tabernacle for the sun,

    5Which is like a bridegroom coming out of his chamber, and rejoices as a strong man to run a race.

    6His going forth is from the end of heaven, and his circuit to the ends of it, and there is nothing hidden from its heat.

  • Ps 104:19
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    19He appointed the moon for seasons: the sun knows its setting.

  • Ps 104:22-23
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    22The sun rises, they gather themselves together, and lie down in their dens.

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

  • Ps 103:16
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    16For the wind passes over it, and it is gone; and its place remembers it no more.

  • Eccl 3:20-21
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    20All go to one place; all are of dust, and all turn to dust again.

    21Who knows the spirit of man that goes upward, and the spirit of the beast that goes downward to the earth?

  • Eccl 3:1
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    1To everything there is a season, and a time for every purpose under heaven:

  • Eccl 4:7
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    7Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
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    15I considered all the living who walk under the sun, with the second child who shall stand up in his place.

    16There is no end of all the people, even of all who have been before them; they also that come after will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 6:4-5
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    4For it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

    5Moreover, it has not seen the sun nor known anything: this has more rest than the other.

  • Eccl 1:14
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    14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and indeed, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

  • Job 9:7
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    7He commands the sun, and it does not rise; He seals up the stars.

  • Eccl 6:12
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    12For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 12:7-8
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    7Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, and the spirit will return to God who gave it.

    8Vanity of vanities, says the preacher; all is vanity.

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    1The mighty God, even the LORD, has spoken, and called the earth from the rising of the sun to its setting.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20Therefore I turned my heart to despair over all the labor which I had done under the sun.

  • Eccl 3:15-16
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    15That which is, has already been; and that which is to be, has already been; and God requires an account of the past.

    16Moreover I saw under the sun the place of judgment, that wickedness was there; and the place of righteousness, that iniquity was there.

  • Job 14:2
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    2He comes forth like a flower and is cut down; he flees also as a shadow and does not continue.

  • Ps 90:6
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    6In the morning it flourishes and grows up; in the evening it is cut down and withers.

  • Job 14:11
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    11As the waters fail from the sea and the flood decays and dries up,

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    11Then I looked on all the works that my hands had done and on the labor I had toiled to do; and behold, all was vanity and vexation of spirit, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Job 31:26
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    26If I beheld the sun when it shined, or the moon walking in brightness;

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    11He has made everything beautiful in its time: also he has set eternity in their heart, so that no man can find out the work that God does from the beginning to the end.

  • Eccl 8:16
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

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    1There is an evil I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

  • Job 7:9
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    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

  • Eccl 2:22
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    22For what has man from all his labor, and of the striving of his heart with which he has labored under the sun?

  • Eccl 8:10
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    10Then I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had done so. This also is vanity.