Ecclesiastes 1:5
3 What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?
4 Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever.
The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
6 The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.
7 All the rivers flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place from which the streams come, there again they flow.
Do read the surrounding verses too, because the context often says more than a single verse.
Compare
- BSB
- The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.
- KJV
- The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
- WEB
- The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
- ASV
- The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
- DARBY
- The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
- BLB
- And the sun has risen, and the sun has gone in, and to its place, panting, it is rising there.
- ÅB
- Og solen går opp, og solen går ned, og den haster tilbake til det sted hvor den går opp.
- OTB
- Solen går opp og solen går ned, og skynder seg tilbake til stedet hvor den går opp igjen.
- B1930
- Og solen går op, og solen går ned, og den haster tilbake til det sted hvor den går op.
Study notes (Tyndale)
Original text and word study
Cross references
Psalms 42:1
As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
Read in contextHabakkuk 3:11
Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
Read in contextPsalms 19:4–6
their voice has gone out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens He has pitched a tent for the sun.
Read in contextPsalms 104:19–23
He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set.
Read in contextJoshua 10:13–14
So the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance upon its enemies. Is this not written in the Book of Jashar? “So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.”
Read in contextPsalms 89:36–37
his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun,
Read in contextGenesis 8:22
As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
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