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Ecclesiastes 1:5
5The sun rises and the sun sets; panting, it hurries back to the place where it rises.
Ecclesiastes 1:5 in other versions
- King James Version (KJV)The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
- New International Version (NIV)The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.
- English Standard Version (ESV)The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
- New King James Version (NKJV)The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose.
Context of Ecclesiastes 1:5
3What does a person gain for all his efforts that he labors at under the sun? 4A generation goes and a generation comes, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets; panting, it hurries back to the place where it rises. 6Gusting to the south, turning to the north, turning, turning, goes the wind, and the wind returns in its cycles. 7All the streams flow to the sea, yet the sea is never full; to the place where the streams flow, there they flow again.
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וְזָרַ֥ח הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ וּבָ֣א הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ וְאֶ֨ל־מְקוֹמ֔וֹ שׁוֹאֵ֛ף זוֹרֵ֥חַֽ ה֖וּא שָֽׁם׃Read the interlinear
Words taken from the KJV.
Cross-references for Ecclesiastes 1:5
- Genesis 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease.”
- Psalms 19:4Their message has gone out to the whole earth, and their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens he has pitched a tent for the sun.
- Psalms 89:36His offspring will continue forever, his throne like the sun before me,
- Psalms 104:19He made the moon to mark the festivals; the sun knows when to set.
- Jeremiah 33:20“This is what the Lord says: If you can break my covenant with the day and my covenant with the night so that day and night cease to come at their regular time,
- Joshua 10:13And the sun stood still and the moon stopped until the nation took vengeance on its enemies. Isn’t this written in the Book of Jashar? So the sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed its setting almost a full day.
- Psalms 42:1As a deer longs for flowing streams, so I long for you, God.
- Habakkuk 3:11Sun and moon stand still in their lofty residence, at the flash of your flying arrows, at the brightness of your shining spear.
Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 1:5
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary · v. 5, Ecclesiastes 1:6; These verses are confused by being falsely divided. The first clause of the sixth should be joined to the fifth verse. "The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he ariseth; going to the south, and circulating to the north."Read the comment
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible · v. 5Hasteth - literally, at his place panting (in his eagerness) riseth he there.Read the comment
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary · v. 4-8Verses 4-8 All things change, and never rest. Man, after all his labour, is no nearer finding rest than the sun, the wind, or the current of the river. His soul will find no rest, if he has it not from God. The senses are soon tired, yet still craving what is untried.Read the comment
- Tyndale Open Study Notes · v. 2-11The Teacher starts by noting that every natural and historical activity has a repetitive cycle of coming and going, existing and not existing. This can cause some to feel that everything is meaningless. The Teacher quickly shifts from one topic to another and ends this section with the topic he began with, using a literary style that reflects the cycles he describes in nature and human history.Read the comment
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary · v. 55. (Psa 19:5, 6). "Panting" as the Hebrew for "hasteth"; metaphor, from a runner (Psa 19:5, "a strong man") in a "race." It applies rather to the rising sun, which seems laboriously to mount up to the meridian, than to the setting sun; the accents too favor Maurer, "And (that too, returning) to his place, where panting he riseth."Read the comment
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Commentaries on Ecclesiastes 1
- Adam Clarke Bible Commentary
- Barnes’ Notes on the Bible
- Matthew Henry Concise Commentary
- Tyndale Open Study Notes
- Jamieson–Fausset–Brown Commentary
- Rashi on Tanakh
- Keil & Delitzsch Commentary
- John Wesley’s Notes
- Darby Translation Notes
- Geneva Bible Translation Notes
- Kingcomments
- Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary
- Matthew Henry’s Modern English Commentary
- Scofield Reference Notes, 1917 Edition
- Original Douay–Rheims Annotations
- Seventh-day Adventist Bible Commentary
- EGW Writings
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