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Ecclesiastes 1:5
5The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to 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.
- 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.
- New Living Translation (NLT)The sun rises and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again.
Context of Ecclesiastes 1:5
3What do people gain from all their labors at which they toil under the sun? 4Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises. 6The wind blows to the south and turns to the north; round and round it goes, ever returning on its course. 7All streams flow into the sea, yet the sea is never full. To the place the streams come from, there they return 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 8:22“As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night will never cease.”
- Psalms 19:4Yet their voice goes out into all the earth, their words to the ends of the world. In the heavens God has pitched a tent for the sun.
- Psalms 89:36that his line will continue forever and his throne endure before me like the sun;
- Psalms 104:19He made the moon to mark the seasons, and the sun knows when to go down.
- 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 no longer come at their appointed time,
- Joshua 10:13So the sun stood still, and the moon stopped, till the nation avenged itself on its enemies, as it is written in the Book of Jashar. The sun stopped in the middle of the sky and delayed going down about a full day.
- Psalms 42:1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul pants for you, my God.
- Habakkuk 3:11Sun and moon stood still in the heavens at the glint of your flying arrows, at the lightning of your flashing 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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