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Pengkhotbah 1:4

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Bible Study Resources

Concordances:

- Nave's Topical Bible - Covetousness;   Earth;   Life;  

Dictionaries:

- American Tract Society Bible Dictionary - Vanity;   Baker Evangelical Dictionary of Biblical Theology - Time;   Fausset Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, the Book of;   Holman Bible Dictionary - Ecclesiastes, Book of;   Generation;   History;   Poetry;   Hastings' Dictionary of the Bible - Ecclesiastes;   Hastings' Dictionary of the New Testament - Eternal Everlasting;   Generation;   New Jerusalem;  

Encyclopedias:

- International Standard Bible Encyclopedia - Abide;   Ecclesiastes, or the Preacher;   The Jewish Encyclopedia - Adda B. ḥunya;   Generation;   Hillel B. Samuel B. Naḥman;   Jacob Gebulaah (Gebulaya);   Palṭiya (Pelaṭya) of Naweh;   Samuel ben Naḥman (Naḥmani);  

Devotionals:

- Every Day Light - Devotion for October 4;  

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Alkitab Terjemahan Baru
Keturunan yang satu pergi dan keturunan yang lain datang, tetapi bumi tetap ada.

Contextual Overview

4 One generation passeth away, another commeth: but the earth abideth styll. 5 The sunne aryseth, the sunne goeth downe, and returneth to his place, that he may there ryse vp agayne. 6 The wynde goeth towarde the south and turneth vnto the north, fetcheth his compasse, whirleth about, and goeth foorth, and returneth agayne to his circuites from whence he dyd come. 7 All fluddes runne into the sea, and yet is the sea it selfe not fylled: For loke vnto what place the waters runne, thence they come to flowe agayne. 8 All thinges are so harde to be knowen, that no man can expresse them: The eye is not satisfied with sight, the eare is not fylled with hearyng.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

One generation: Ecclesiastes 6:12, Genesis 5:3-31, Genesis 11:20-32, Genesis 36:9-19, Genesis 47:9, Exodus 1:6, Exodus 1:7, Exodus 6:16-27, Psalms 89:47, Psalms 89:48, Psalms 90:9, Psalms 90:10, Zechariah 1:5

but: Psalms 102:24-28, Psalms 104:5, Psalms 119:90, Psalms 119:91, Matthew 24:35, 2 Peter 3:10-13

Reciprocal: 2 Chronicles 6:10 - I am risen Job 21:33 - every man Luke 20:32 - died 1 Corinthians 7:31 - for

Cross-References

Genesis 1:10
And God called the drie lande ye earth, and the gatheryng together of waters called he the seas: and God sawe that it was good.
Genesis 1:12
And the earth brought forth [both] bud and hearbe apt to seede after his kynde, and tree yeeldyng fruite, whiche hath seede in it selfe, after his kynde.
Genesis 1:18
And to rule the day and nyght, and to make difference betweene the lyght and the darknesse: and God saw that it was good.
Genesis 1:25
God made the beast of the earth after his kynde, and cattell after his kynde, and euery thyng that creepeth vpon the earth after his kynde: and God sawe that it was good.
Genesis 1:31
And God sawe euery thyng that he had made: and beholde, it was exceedyng good. And the euenyng & the mornyng were the sixth day.
Ecclesiastes 2:13
And I sawe that wisdome excelleth foolishnesse, as farre as light doth darknesse.
Ecclesiastes 11:7
The light is sweete, and a pleasaunt thing is it for the eyes to looke vpon the sunne.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

[One] generation passeth away, and [another] generation cometh,.... This shows that a man can have no profit of all his labour under the sun, because of his short continuance; as soon almost as he has got anything by his labour, he must leave it: not only particular persons, but families, nations, and kingdoms; even all the inhabitants of the world, that are contemporaries, live together in the same age, in a certain period of time; these gradually go off by death, till the whole generation is consumed, as the generation of the Israelites in the wilderness were. Death is meant by passing away; it is a going out of time into eternity; a departure out of this world to another; a quitting of the earthly house of this tabernacle for the grave, the house appointed for all living; it is man's going to his long home: and this is going the way of all the earth; in a short time a whole race or generation of men go off the stage of the world, and then another succeeds q; they come in by birth; and men are described from their birth by such as "come into the world"; for which there is a set time, as well as for going out, John 1:9; and these having been a while in the world, go off to make room for another generation; and so things have been from the beginning of the world, and will be to the end of it. Homer r illustrates this by the succession of leaves of trees; as is the generation of trees, he says, such is that of men; some leaves, the wind sheds them on the ground; others the budding forest puts forth, and they grow in their room in the springtime; so is the generation of men; one is born, and another ceases. Now death puts an end to all a man's enjoyments got by labour, his riches, honour, and natural knowledge; these all cease with him, and therefore he has no profit of all his labour under the sun;

but the earth abideth for ever; for a long time, until the dissolution of all things; and then, though that and all in it will be burnt up, yet it will rather be changed than destroyed; the form of it will be altered, when the substance of it will continue; it will not be annihilated, but renewed and refined. This is mentioned to show that the earth, which was made for man, of which he is the inhabitant and proprietor, is more stable than he himself; he soon passes off from it, but that continues; he returns to the earth, from whence he came, but that remains as it did; he dies, and leaves the earth behind him, and all his acquisitions in it; and therefore what profit has he of all his labours on it? Besides, that remains to have the same things transacted on it, over and over again, as has been already; God, that made it for men to dwell in, has determined the times before appointed, and the bounds of men's habitations in it; he has appointed who shall dwell on it, and where, in successive generations; and till all these men are born and gone off, age after age, the earth shall continue, and then pass through its last change. The Targum is,

"the earth stands for ever, to bear the vengeance that is to come upon the world for the sins of the children of men.''

The Midrash Tanchuma, as Jarchi observes, interprets it of all the righteous of Israel, called the earth; and he himself, of the meek that shall inherit the earth: says R. Isaac s,

"one kingdom comes, and another goes, but Israel abideth for ever.''

q "Nihil enim semper floret, aetas succedit aetati", Cicero. Orat. Philip. 11. r Iliad. 6. v. 146, &c. So Musaeus apud Clement. Stromat. l. 6. p 649. "Ut silvae foliis", &c. Horat. de Arte Poctica, v. 60. s Apud R. Joseph. Titatzak in loc.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Vanity is shown in mankind, the elements, and all that moves on earth; the same course is repeated again and again without any permanent result or real progress; and events and people alike are forgotten.

Abideth - The apparent permanence of the earth increases by contrast the transitory condition of its inhabitants.

Ever - The word does not here absolutely signify “eternity” (compare Ecclesiastes 3:11 note), but a certainly short period (compare Exodus 21:6): here it might be paraphrased “as long as this world, this present order of things, lasts.”

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse Ecclesiastes 1:4. One generation passeth away — Men succeed each other in unceasing generations: but the earth is still the same; it undergoes no change that leads to melioration, or greater perfection. And it will continue the same לעולם leolam, during the whole course of time; till the end of all things arrives.


 
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