Ecc 1:4
{One} generation passeth away, and {another} generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.
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{Who} laid the foundations of the earth, {that} it should not be removed for ever. {Who...: Heb. He hath founded the earth upon her bases}
Your fathers, where {are} they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
For who knoweth what {is} good for man in {this} life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun? {all...: Heb. the number of the days of the life of his vanity}
Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.
Thy faithfulness {is} unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. {unto...: Heb. to generation and generation} {abideth: Heb. standeth}
I said, O my God, take me not away in the midst of my days: thy years {are} throughout all generations.
Remember how short my time is: wherefore hast thou made all men in vain?
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.
For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale {that is told}. {passed...: Heb. turned away} {as a...: or, as a meditation}
And Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat {a son} in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth:
And these {are} the generations of Esau the father of the Edomites in mount Seir: {the Edomites: Heb. Edom}
And Joseph died, and all his brethren, and all that generation.
And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
And these {are} the names of the sons of Levi according to their generations; Gershon, and Kohath, and Merari: and the years of the life of Levi {were} an hundred thirty and seven years.
And Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug: {Serug: Gr. Saruch}
{Who} laid the foundations of the earth, {that} it should not be removed for ever. {Who...: Heb. He hath founded the earth upon her bases}
Last of all the woman died also.
And they that use this world, as not abusing {it}: for the fashion of this world passeth away.
Your fathers, where {are} they? and the prophets, do they live for ever?
Thy faithfulness {is} unto all generations: thou hast established the earth, and it abideth. {unto...: Heb. to generation and generation} {abideth: Heb. standeth}
The clods of the valley shall be sweet unto him, and every man shall draw after him, as {there are} innumerable before him.
The LORD therefore hath performed his word that he hath spoken: for I am risen up in the room of David my father, and am set on the throne of Israel, as the LORD promised, and have built the house for the name of the LORD God of Israel.