Ecclesiastes 1:4

Young's Literal Translation (1862/1898)

A generation is going, and a generation is coming, and the earth to the age is standing.

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  • Ps 104:5 : 5 He hath founded earth on its bases, It is not moved to the age and for ever.
  • Matt 24:35 : 35 The heaven and the earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
  • Zech 1:5 : 5 Your fathers -- where `are' they? And the prophets -- to the age do they live?
  • Eccl 6:12 : 12 For who knoweth what `is' good for a man in life, the number of the days of the life of his vanity, and he maketh them as a shadow? for who declareth to man what is after him under the sun?
  • 2 Pet 3:10-13 : 10 and it will come -- the day of the Lord -- as a thief in the night, in which the heavens with a rushing noise will pass away, and the elements with burning heat be dissolved, and earth and the works in it shall be burnt up. 11 All these, then, being dissolved, what kind of persons doth it behove you to be in holy behaviours and pious acts? 12 waiting for and hasting to the presence of the day of God, by which the heavens, being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements with burning heat shall melt; 13 and for new heavens and a new earth according to His promise we do wait, in which righteousness doth dwell;
  • Ps 119:90-91 : 90 To all generations Thy faithfulness, Thou didst establish earth, and it standeth. 91 According to Thine ordinances They have stood this day, for the whole `are' Thy servants.
  • Ps 90:9-9 : 9 For all our days pined away in Thy wrath, We consumed our years as a meditation. 10 Days of our years, in them `are' seventy years, And if, by reason of might, eighty years, Yet `is' their enlargement labour and vanity, For it hath been cut off hastily, and we fly away.
  • Ps 102:24-28 : 24 I say, `My God, take me not up in the midst of my days,' Through all generations `are' Thine years. 25 Beforetime the earth Thou didst found, And the work of Thy hands `are' the heavens. 26 They -- They perish, and Thou remainest, And all of them as a garment become old, As clothing Thou changest them, And they are changed. 27 And Thou `art' the same, and Thine years are not finished. 28 The sons of Thy servants do continue, And their seed before Thee is established!
  • Gen 5:3-9 : 3 And Adam liveth an hundred and thirty years, and begetteth `a son' in his likeness, according to his image, and calleth his name Seth. 4 And the days of Adam after his begetting Seth are eight hundred years, and he begetteth sons and daughters. 5 And all the days of Adam which he lived are nine hundred and thirty years, and he dieth. 6 And Seth liveth an hundred and five years, and begetteth Enos. 7 And Seth liveth after his begetting Enos eight hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 8 And all the days of Seth are nine hundred and twelve years, and he dieth. 9 And Enos liveth ninety years, and begetteth Cainan. 10 And Enos liveth after his begetting Cainan eight hundred and fifteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 11 And all the days of Enos are nine hundred and five years, and he dieth. 12 And Cainan liveth seventy years, and begetteth Mahalaleel. 13 And Cainan liveth after his begetting Mahalaleel eight hundred and forty years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 14 And all the days of Cainan are nine hundred and ten years, and he dieth. 15 And Mahalaleel liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Jared. 16 And Mahalaleel liveth after his begetting Jared eight hundred and thirty years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 17 And all the days of Mahalaleel are eight hundred and ninety and five years, and he dieth. 18 And Jared liveth an hundred and sixty and two years, and begetteth Enoch. 19 And Jared liveth after his begetting Enoch eight hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 20 And all the days of Jared are nine hundred and sixty and two years, and he dieth. 21 And Enoch liveth five and sixty years, and begetteth Methuselah. 22 And Enoch walketh habitually with God after his begetting Methuselah three hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 23 And all the days of Enoch are three hundred and sixty and five years. 24 And Enoch walketh habitually with God, and he is not, for God hath taken him. 25 And Methuselah liveth an hundred and eighty and seven years, and begetteth Lamech. 26 And Methuselah liveth after his begetting Lamech seven hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 27 And all the days of Methuselah are nine hundred and sixty and nine years, and he dieth. 28 And Lamech liveth an hundred and eighty and two years, and begetteth a son, 29 and calleth his name Noah, saying, `This `one' doth comfort us concerning our work, and concerning the labour of our hands, because of the ground which Jehovah hath cursed.' 30 And Lamech liveth after his begetting Noah five hundred and ninety and five years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 31 And all the days of Lamech are seven hundred and seventy and seven years, and he dieth.
  • Gen 11:20-32 : 20 And Reu liveth two and thirty years, and begetteth Serug. 21 And Reu liveth after his begetting Serug two hundred and seven years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 22 And Serug liveth thirty years, and begetteth Nahor. 23 And Serug liveth after his begetting Nahor two hundred years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 24 And Nahor liveth nine and twenty years, and begetteth Terah. 25 And Nahor liveth after his begetting Terah an hundred and nineteen years, and begetteth sons and daughters. 26 And Terah liveth seventy years, and begetteth Abram, Nahor, and Haran. 27 And these `are' births of Terah: Terah hath begotten Abram, Nahor, and Haran; and Haran hath begotten Lot; 28 and Haran dieth in the presence of Terah his father, in the land of his birth, in Ur of the Chaldees. 29 And Abram and Nahor take to themselves wives; the name of Abram's wife `is' Sarai, and the name of Nahor's wife `is' Milcah, daughter of Haran, father of Milcah, and father of Iscah. 30 And Sarai is barren -- she hath no child. 31 And Terah taketh Abram his son, and Lot, son of Haran, his son's son, and Sarai his daughter-in-law, wife of Abram his son, and they go out with them from Ur of the Chaldees, to go towards the land of Canaan; and they come unto Charan, and dwell there. 32 And the days of Terah are two hundred and five years, and Terah dieth in Charan.
  • Gen 36:9-9 : 9 And these `are' births of Esau, father of Edom, in mount Seir. 10 These `are' the names of the sons of Esau: Eliphaz son of Adah, wife of Esau; Reuel son of Bashemath, wife of Esau. 11 And the sons of Eliphaz are Teman, Omar, Zepho, and Gatam, and Kenaz; 12 and Timnath hath been concubine to Eliphaz son of Esau, and she beareth to Eliphaz, Amalek; these `are' sons of Adah wife of Esau. 13 And these `are' sons of Reuel: Nahath and Zerah, Shammah and Mizzah; these were sons of Bashemath wife of Esau. 14 And these have been the sons of Aholibamah daughter of Anah, daughter of Zibeon, wife of Esau; and she beareth to Esau, Jeush and Jaalam and Korah. 15 These `are' chiefs of the sons of Esau: sons of Eliphaz, first-born of Esau: chief Teman, chief Omar, chief Zepho, chief Kenaz, 16 chief Korah, chief Gatam, chief Amalek; these `are' chiefs of Eliphaz, in the land of Edom; these `are' sons of Adah. 17 And these `are' sons of Reuel son of Esau: chief Nahath, chief Zerah, chief Shammah, chief Mizzah; these `are' chiefs of Reuel, in the land of Edom; these `are' sons of Bashemath wife of Esau. 18 And these `are' sons of Aholibamah wife of Esau: chief Jeush, chief Jaalam, chief Korah; these `are' chiefs of Aholibamah daughter of Anah, wife of Esau. 19 These `are' sons of Esau (who `is' Edom), and these their chiefs.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob saith unto Pharaoh, `The days of the years of my sojournings `are' an hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers, in the days of their sojournings.'
  • Exod 1:6-7 : 6 And Joseph dieth, and all his brethren, and all that generation; 7 and the sons of Israel have been fruitful, and they teem, and multiply, and are very very mighty, and the land is filled with them.
  • Exod 6:16-27 : 16 And these `are' the names of the sons of Levi, as to their births: Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi `are' a hundred and thirty and seven years. 17 The sons of Gershon `are' Libni, and Shimi, as to their families. 18 And the sons of Kohath `are' Amram, and Izhar, and Hebron, and Uzziel: and the years of the life of Kohath `are' a hundred and thirty and three years. 19 And the sons of Merari `are' Mahli and Mushi: these `are' families of Levi, as to their births. 20 And Amram taketh Jochebed his aunt to himself for a wife, and she beareth to him Aaron and Moses: and the years of the life of Amram `are' a hundred and thirty and seven years. 21 And sons of Izhar `are' Korah, and Nepheg, and Zichri. 22 And sons of Uzziel `are' Mishael, and Elzaphan, and Sithri. 23 And Aaron taketh Elisheba daughter of Amminadab, sister of Naashon, to himself for a wife, and she beareth to him Nadab, and Abihu, Eleazar, and Ithamar. 24 And sons of Korah `are' Assir, and Elkanah, and Abiasaph: these `are' families of the Korhite. 25 And Eleazar, Aaron's son, hath taken to him `one' of the daughters of Putiel for a wife to himself, and she beareth to him Phinehas: these `are' heads of the fathers of the Levites, as to their families. 26 This `is' Aaron -- and Moses -- to whom Jehovah said, `Bring ye out the sons of Israel from the land of Egypt, by their hosts;' 27 these are they who are speaking unto Pharaoh king of Egypt, to bring out the sons of Israel from Egypt, this `is' Moses -- and Aaron.
  • Ps 89:47-48 : 47 Remember, I pray Thee, what `is' life-time? Wherefore in vain hast Thou created All the sons of men? 48 Who `is' the man that liveth, and doth not see death? He delivereth his soul from the hand of Sheol. Selah.

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