Ecclesiastes 1:5
Good News Translation
The sun still rises, and it still goes down, going wearily back to where it must start all over again.

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

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

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

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again,

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

Psalm 19:4-6 Their sound hath gone forth into all the earth: and their words unto the ends of the world. . . .

Psalm 89:36,37 His seed shall endure for ever. . . .

Psalm 104:19-23 He hath made the moon for seasons: the sun knoweth his going down. . . .

Jeremiah 33:20 Thus saith the Lord: if my covenant, with the day can be made void, and my covenant with the night, that there should not be day and night in their season:

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Joshua 10:13,14 And the sun and the moon stood still, till the people revenged themselves of their enemies. Is not this written in the book of the just? So the sun stood still in the midst of heaven, and hasted not to go down the space of one day. . . .

Psalm 42:1 Unto the end, understanding for the sons of Core. [2] As the hart panteth after the fountains of water; so my soul panteth after thee, O God.

Habakkuk 3:11 The sun and the moon stood still in their habitation, in the light of thy arrows, they shall go in the brightness of thy glittering spear.

Context
Everything is Futile
4One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth standeth for ever. 5The sun riseth, and goeth down, and returneth to his place: and there rising again,6Maketh his round by the south, and turneth again to the north: the spirit goeth forward surveying all places round about, and returneth to his circuits.…
Cross References
Psalm 19:6
His going out is from the end of heaven, And his circuit even to the end thereof: and there is no one that can hide himself from his heat.

Proverbs 7:23
Now, therefore, my son, hear me, and attend to the words of my mouth.

Ecclesiastes 1:4
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