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Everything Is Futile

Ecclesiastes 1:5

In 11 translations

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.hasteth: Heb. panteth
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.
LSV
Also, the sun has risen, and the sun has gone in, and to its place panting it is rising there.
YLT
Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.
DBY
The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.
DRC
The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again,
GNV
The sunne riseth, and ye sunne goeth downe, and draweth to his place, where he riseth.
JPS
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he ariseth.
LXXE
And the sun arises, and the sun goes down and draws toward its place;

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Words in brackets are English the glossers added; the Hebrew has no word for them, and they can carry a choice of tense or meaning.

Original-language editions

WLC
וְזָרַ֥ח הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ וּבָ֣א הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ וְאֶ֨ל־מְקוֹמ֔וֹ שׁוֹאֵ֛ף זוֹרֵ֥חַֽ ה֖וּא שָֽׁם׃
LXX-Br
Καὶ ἀνατέλλει ὁ ἥλιος καὶ δύνει ὁ ἥλιος καὶ εἰς τὸν τόπον αὐτοῦ ἕλκει·

In the reference works topics that cite this verse

From public-domain Bible dictionaries and topical indexes (1884–1915).

Cross-references most cited first

  • Psalms 42:1As the deer pants for streams of water, so my soul longs after You, O God.
  • Psalms 19:4–6their 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. Like a bridegroom emerging from his chamber, like a champion rejoicing to run his…
  • Habakkuk 3:11Sun and moon stood still in their places at the flash of Your flying arrows, at the brightness of Your shining spear.
  • Psalms 89:36–37his offspring shall endure forever, and his throne before Me like the sun, like the moon, established forever, a faithful witness in the sky.” Selah
  • Genesis 8:22As long as the earth endures, seedtime and harvest, cold and heat, summer and winter, day and night shall never cease.”
  • Joshua 10:13–14So 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…
  • Psalms 104:19–23He made the moon to mark the seasons; the sun knows when to set. You bring darkness, and it becomes night, when all the beasts of the forest prowl. The young lions roar for their prey and seek their food from God. The…
  • 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 occupy their appointed time,

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