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Ecclesiastes 1:5

The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again.

Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Astronomy;   Covetousness;   Sun;   Thompson Chain Reference - Sun, the;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Vanity;   Bridgeway Bible Dictionary - Creation;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Time;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, Book of;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ecclesiastes;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Abba Hoshaya of Turya;   Jacob Bar Abina (Abin;   Sun;  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 4;  

Parallel Translations

New Living Translation
The sun rises and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again.
Update Bible Version
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
New Century Version
The sun rises, the sun sets, and then it hurries back to where it rises again.
Webster's Bible Translation
The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
World English Bible
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
Amplified Bible
Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hurries to the place where it rises again.
English Standard Version
The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
The sunne risith, and goith doun, and turneth ayen to his place;
English Revised Version
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he ariseth.
Berean Standard Bible
The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it arose.
Contemporary English Version
The sun comes up, the sun goes down; it hurries right back to where it started from.
American Standard Version
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
Bible in Basic English
The sun comes up and the sun goes down, and goes quickly back to the place where he came up.
Complete Jewish Bible
The sun rises, the sun sets; then it speeds to its place and rises there.
Darby Translation
The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
Easy-to-Read Version
The sun rises and the sun goes down, and then it hurries to rise again in the same place.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he ariseth.
King James Version (1611)
The Sunne also ariseth, and the Sunne goeth downe, and hasteth to the place where he arose.
New Life Bible
The sun rises and the sun sets, and travels in a hurry to the place where it rises.
New Revised Standard
The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hurries to the place where it rises.
Geneva Bible (1587)
The sunne riseth, and ye sunne goeth downe, and draweth to his place, where he riseth.
George Lamsa Translation
The sun rises and the sun goes down and hastens to the place where it rose that from thence it may rise again.
Good News Translation
The sun still rises, and it still goes down, going wearily back to where it must start all over again.
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
And the sun, breaketh forth, and the sun, goeth in, - yea, unto his own place, he panteth, from whence he brake forth.
Douay-Rheims Bible
The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again,
Revised Standard Version
The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
The sunne aryseth, the sunne goeth downe, and returneth to his place, that he may there ryse vp agayne.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
And the sun arises, and the sun goes down and draws toward its place;
Christian Standard Bible®
The sun rises and the sun sets;panting, it returns to the placewhere it rises.
Hebrew Names Version
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.
King James Version
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.
Lexham English Bible
The sun rises, and the sun goes down; to its place it hurries, and there it rises again.
Literal Translation
The sun also arises, and the sun goes even panting to its place; it arises there again .
Young's Literal Translation
Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
The Sone aryseth, the Sonne goeth downe, & returneth to his place, yt he maye there ryse vp agayne.
New American Standard Bible
Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hurrying to its place it rises there again.
New King James Version
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, And hastens to the place where it arose.
New American Standard Bible (1995)
Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again.
Legacy Standard Bible
Also, the sun rises and the sun sets;And hastening to its place it rises there again.

Contextual Overview

4 A generation comes and a generation goes, but the earth remains the same through the ages. 5 The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries away to a place from which it rises again. 6 The wind goes to the south and circles around to the north; round and round the wind goes and on its rounds it returns. 7 All the streams flow into the sea, but the sea is not full, and to the place where the streams flow, there they will flow again. 8 All this monotony is tiresome; no one can bear to describe it: The eye is never satisfied with seeing, nor is the ear ever content with hearing.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

sun: Genesis 8:22, Psalms 19:4-6, Psalms 89:36, Psalms 89:37, Psalms 104:19-23, Jeremiah 33:20

hasteth: Heb. panteth, Joshua 10:13, Joshua 10:14, Psalms 42:1, Habakkuk 3:11

Reciprocal: Psalms 19:5 - rejoiceth Psalms 19:6 - His going

Cross-References

Genesis 1:8
God called the expanse "sky." There was evening, and there was morning, a second day.
Genesis 1:13
There was evening, and there was morning, a third day.
Genesis 1:19
There was evening, and there was morning, a fourth day.
Genesis 1:23
There was evening, and there was morning, a fifth day.
Genesis 1:31
God saw all that he had made—and it was very good! There was evening, and there was morning, the sixth day.
Genesis 8:22
"While the earth continues to exist, planting time and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, and day and night will not cease."
Psalms 19:2
Day after day it speaks out; night after night it reveals his greatness.
Psalms 74:16
You established the cycle of day and night; you put the moon and sun in place.
Psalms 104:20
You make it dark and night comes, during which all the beasts of the forest prowl around.
Isaiah 45:7
I am the one who forms light and creates darkness; the one who brings about peace and creates calamity. I am the Lord , who accomplishes all these things.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose. The sun rises in the morning and sets at evening in our hemisphere, according to the appearance of things; and then it makes haste to go round the other hemisphere in the night: it "pants", as the word t signifies; the same figure is used by other writers u; like a man out of breath with running; so this glorious body, which rejoiceth as a strong man to run his race, and whose circuit is from one end of the heavens to the other, Psalms 19:5; is in haste to get to the place where he rose in the morning, and there he makes no stop, but pursues his course in the same track again. By this instance is exemplified the succession of the generations of men one after another, as the rising and setting of the sun continually follows each other; and also sets forth the restless state of things in the world, which, like the sun, are never at a stand, but always moving, and swiftly taking their course; and likewise the changeable state of man, who, like the rising sun, and when at noon day, is in flourishing circumstances, and in the height of prosperity, but as this declines and sets, so he has his declining times and days of adversity. Moreover, like the rising sun, he comes into this world and appears for a while, and then, like the setting sun, he dies; only with this difference, in which the sun has the preference to him, as the earth before had; the sun hastens and comes to its place from whence it arose, but man lies down and rises not again till the heavens be no more, and never returns to his place in this world, that knows him no more, Job 7:10. The Jews w say, before the sun of one righteous, man sets, the sun of another righteous man rises.

t שואפ "anhelus", Montanus, Tigurine version; "anhelat", Drusius, Piscator, Cocceius, Amama; "anhelaus est", Rambachius; "doth he breathe", Broughton. u "Placebits anhelat", Claudian. Epigrarm. "Equis oriens afflavit anhelis", Virgil. Georgic. l. 1. v. 250. Aeneid, l. 5. w Apud R. Joseph. Titatzak in loc. Midrash Kohelet in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Hasteth ... - literally, at his place panting (in his eagerness) riseth he there.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 1:5. and 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."


 
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