Ecclesiastes 1:5
New International Version
The sun rises and the sun sets, and hurries back to where it rises.

New Living Translation
The sun rises and the sun sets, then hurries around to rise again.

English Standard Version
The sun rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to the place where it rises.

Berean Standard Bible
The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.

King James Bible
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

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
Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hurrying to its place it rises there again.

NASB 1995
Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again.

NASB 1977
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.

Amplified Bible
Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hurries to the place where it rises again.

Christian Standard Bible
The sun rises and the sun sets; panting, it hurries back to the place where it rises.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
The sun rises and the sun sets; panting, it returns to its place where it rises.

American Standard Version
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.

Aramaic Bible in Plain English
The sun rises and the sun sets, and to the place where it rises it is returning; from there it will rise again.

Brenton Septuagint Translation
And the sun arises, and the sun goes down and draws toward its place;

Contemporary English Version
The sun comes up, the sun goes down; it hurries right back to where it started from.

Douay-Rheims Bible
The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again,

English Revised Version
The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he ariseth.

GOD'S WORD® Translation
The sun rises, and the sun sets, and then it rushes back to the place where it will 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.

International Standard Version
The sun rises, the sun sets, then rushes back to where it arose.

JPS Tanakh 1917
The sun also ariseth, And the sun goeth down, And hasteth to his place where he ariseth.

Literal Standard Version
Also, the sun has risen, and the sun has gone in, and to its place panting it is rising there.

Majority Standard Bible
The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises.

New American Bible
The sun rises and the sun sets; then it presses on to the place where it rises.

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

New Revised Standard Version
The sun rises and the sun goes down, and hurries to the place where it rises.

New Heart English Bible
The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it rises.

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.

Young's Literal Translation
Also, the sun hath risen, and the sun hath gone in, and unto its place panting it is rising there.

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Context
Everything is Futile
4Generations come and generations go, but the earth remains forever. 5The sun rises and the sun sets; it hurries back to where it rises. 6The wind blows southward, then turns northward; round and round it swirls, ever returning on its course.…

Cross References
Psalm 19:6
it rises at one end of the heavens and runs its circuit to the other; nothing is deprived of its warmth.

Proverbs 7:23
until an arrow pierces his liver, like a bird darting into a snare--not knowing it will cost him his life.


Treasury of Scripture

The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hastens to his place where he arose.

sun

Genesis 8:22
While the earth remaineth, seedtime and harvest, and cold and heat, and summer and winter, and day and night shall not cease.

Psalm 19:4-6
Their line is gone out through all the earth, and their words to the end of the world. In them hath he set a tabernacle for the sun, …

Psalm 89:36,37
His seed shall endure for ever, and his throne as the sun before me…

hasteth

Joshua 10:13,14
And the sun stood still, and the moon stayed, until the people had avenged themselves upon their enemies. Is not this written in the book of Jasher? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down about a whole day…

Psalm 42:1
To the chief Musician, Maschil, for the sons of Korah. As the hart panteth after the water brooks, so panteth my soul after thee, O God.

Habakkuk 3:11
The sun and moon stood still in their habitation: at the light of thine arrows they went, and at the shining of thy glittering spear.

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Ecclesiastes 1
1. the preacher shows that all human courses are vain
4. because the creatures are restless in their courses
9. they bring forth nothing new, and all old things are forgotten
12. and because he has found it so in the studies of wisdom














(5) Hasteth.--Heb., panteth. The word is used of eager desire (Job 7:2; Psalm 119:131).

Where he arose.--Better, there to rise again.

Verse 5. - The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down. The sun is another instance of ever-recurring change in the face of an enduring sameness, rising and setting day-by-day, and resting never. The legendary 'Life of Abram' relates how, having been hidden for some years in a cave in order to escape the search of Nimrod, when he emerged from his concealment, and for the first time beheld heaven and earth, he began to inquire who was the Creator of the wonders around him. When the sun arose and flooded the scene with its glorious light, he at once concluded that that bright orb must be the creative Deity, and offered his prayers to it all day long. But when it sank in darkness, he repented of his illusion, being persuaded that the sun could not have made the world and be itself subject to extinction (see 'Abraham: his Life and Times,' p. 12). And hasteth to his place where he arose; literally, and panteth (equivalent to hasteth, longeth to go) to its place arising there; i.e. the sun, sinking in the west, eagerly during the night returns to the east, duly to rise there in the morning. The "place" is the region of reappearance. The Septuagint gives, "The sun arises, and the sun sets, and draws (ἕλκει) unto its place;" and then carries the idea into the following verse: "Arising there, it proceedeth southward," etc. The Vulgate supports the rendering; but there is no doubt that the Authorized Version gives substantially the sense of the Hebrew text as accentuated. The verb שׁאפ (shaaph), as Delitzsch shows, implies "punting," not from fatigue, but in eager pursuit of something; and all notions of panting steeds or morning exhalations are quite foreign from the conception of the passage. The notion which Koheleth desires to convey is that the sun makes no real progress; its eager punting merely brings it to the old place, there to recommence its monotonous routine. Rosenmüller quotes Catullus, 'Carm.,' 5:4-6, on which, Doering cites Lotich., 'Eleg.,' 3:7. 23 -

"Ergo ubi permensus coelum sol occidit, idem
Purpureo vestit lumine rursus humum;
Nos, ubi decidimus, defuncti muncre vitae,
Urget perpetua hmina nocte sopor."
But our passage does not contrast the revival of the sun every morning with man's eternal sleep in death.

Parallel Commentaries ...


Hebrew
The sun
הַשֶּׁ֖מֶשׁ (haš·še·meš)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 8121: The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement

rises
וְזָרַ֥ח (wə·zā·raḥ)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2224: To irradiate, to rise, to appear

and the sun
הַשָּׁ֑מֶשׁ (haš·šā·meš)
Article | Noun - common singular
Strong's 8121: The sun, the east, a ray, a notched battlement

sets;
וּבָ֣א (ū·ḇā)
Conjunctive waw | Verb - Qal - Conjunctive perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 935: To come in, come, go in, go

it hurries back
שׁוֹאֵ֛ף (šō·w·’êp̄)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 7602: To inhale eagerly, to cover, to be angry, to hasten

to
מְקוֹמ֔וֹ (mə·qō·w·mōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4725: A standing, a spot, a condition

where
שָֽׁם׃ (šām)
Adverb
Strong's 8033: There, then, thither

it
ה֖וּא (hū)
Pronoun - third person masculine singular
Strong's 1931: He, self, the same, this, that, as, are

arose.
זוֹרֵ֥חַֽ (zō·w·rê·aḥ)
Verb - Qal - Participle - masculine singular
Strong's 2224: To irradiate, to rise, to appear


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