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

◄ Ecclesiastes 1:5 ►

Parallel Verses

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

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

New American Standard Bible
Also, the sun rises and the sun sets; And hastening to its place it rises there again.

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

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

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

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

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

Darby Bible Translation
The sun also riseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to its place where it ariseth.

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

Commentaries

Matthew Henry's Commentary

1:4-8 All things change, and never rest. Man, after all his labour, is no nearer finding rest than the sun, the wind, or the current of the river. His soul will find no rest, if he has it not from God. The senses are soon tired, yet still craving what is untried.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown

5. (Ps 19:5, 6). "Panting" as the Hebrew for "hasteth"; metaphor, from a runner (Ps 19:5, "a strong man") in a "race." It applies rather to the rising sun, which seems laboriously to mount up to the meridian, than to the setting sun; the accents too favor Maurer, "And (that too, returning) to his place, where panting he riseth."