Ecclesiastes 1:5

World English Bible (2000)

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

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  • Ps 19:4-6 : 4 Their voice has gone out through all the earth, their words to the end of the world. In them he has set a tent for the sun, 5 which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course. 6 His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.
  • Hab 3:11 : 11 The sun and moon stood still in the sky, at the light of your arrows as they went, at the shining of your glittering spear.
  • Gen 8:22 : 22 While the earth remains, seed time and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease."
  • Josh 10:13-14 : 13 The sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the nation had avenged themselves of their enemies. Isn't this written in the book of Jashar? The sun stayed in the midst of the sky, and didn't hurry to go down about a whole day. 14 There was no day like that before it or after it, that Yahweh listened to the voice of a man; for Yahweh fought for Israel.
  • Ps 42:1 : 1 As the deer pants for the water brooks, so my soul pants after you, God.
  • Ps 89:36-37 : 36 His seed will endure forever, his throne like the sun before me. 37 It will be established forever like the moon, the faithful witness in the sky." Selah.
  • Ps 104:19-23 : 19 He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set. 20 You make darkness, and it is night, in which all the animals of the forest prowl. 21 The young lions roar after their prey, and seek their food from God. 22 The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens. 23 Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.
  • Jer 33:20 : 20 Thus says Yahweh: If you can break my covenant of the day, and my covenant of the night, so that there shall not be day and night in their season;

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    1The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem:

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

    3What does man gain from all his labor in which he labors under the sun?

    4One generation goes, 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 turns around continually as it goes, and the wind returns again to its courses.

    7All the rivers run into the sea, yet the sea is not full. To the place where the rivers flow, there they flow again.

  • Eccl 1:9-10
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    9That which has been is that which shall be; and that which has been done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

    10Is there a thing of which it may be said, "Behold, this is new?" It has been long ago, in the ages which were before us.

  • Eccl 5:16
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    16This also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go. And what profit does he have who labors for the wind?

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

    8Yes, if a man lives many years, let him rejoice in them all; but let him remember the days of darkness, for they shall be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Jas 1:11
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    11For the sun arises with the scorching wind, and withers the grass, and the flower in it 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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    2Before the sun, the light, the moon, and the stars are darkened, and the clouds return after the rain;

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

    5which is as a bridegroom coming out of his room, like a strong man rejoicing to run his course.

    6His going forth is from the end of the heavens, his circuit to its ends; There is nothing hidden from its heat.

  • Ps 104:19
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    19He appointed the moon for seasons. The sun knows when to set.

  • Ps 104:22-23
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    22The sun rises, and they steal away, and lay down in their dens.

    23Man goes forth to his work, to his labor until the evening.

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

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

    21Who knows the spirit of man, whether it goes upward, and the spirit of the animal, whether it goes downward to the earth?"

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

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

  • Eccl 4:15-16
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    15I saw all the living who walk under the sun, that they were with the youth, the other, who succeeded him.

    16There was no end of all the people, even of all them over whom he was--yet those who come after shall not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and a chasing after wind.

  • 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 it. This has rest rather than the other.

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

  • Job 9:7
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    7He commands the sun, and it doesn't rise, and seals up the stars.

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

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

    8"Vanity of vanities," says the Preacher. "All is vanity!"

  • Ps 50:1
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    1The Mighty One, God, Yahweh, speaks, and calls the earth from sunrise to sunset.

  • Eccl 2:20
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    20Therefore I began to cause my heart to despair concerning all the labor in which I had labored under the sun.

  • Eccl 3:15-16
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    15That which is has been long ago, and that which is to be has been long ago: and God seeks again that which is passed away.

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

  • Job 14:2
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    2He comes forth like a flower, and is cut down. He also flees like a shadow, and doesn't continue.

  • Ps 90:6
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    6In the morning it sprouts and springs up. By evening, it is withered and dry.

  • Job 14:11
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    11As the waters fail from the sea, and the river wastes and dries up,

  • Eccl 2:11
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    11Then I looked at all the works that my hands had worked, and at the labor that I had labored to do; and behold, all was vanity and a chasing after wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

  • Job 31:26
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    26if I have seen the sun when it shined, or the moon moving in splendor,

  • Eccl 3:11
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    11He has made everything beautiful in its time. He has also set eternity in their hearts, yet so that man can't find out the work that God has done from the beginning even to the end.

  • Eccl 8:16
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom, and to see the business that is done on the earth (for also there is that neither day nor night sees sleep with his eyes),

  • Eccl 6:1
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    1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

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

  • Eccl 2:22
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    22For what has a man of all his labor, and of the striving of his heart, in which he labors under the sun?

  • Eccl 8:10
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    10So I saw the wicked buried. Indeed they came also from holiness. They went and were forgotten in the city where they did this. This also is vanity.