Chapter 1 verse 4 one generation goes and another…
Chapter 1 verse 4 one generation goes and another one comes. The earth remains forever. In other words when one generation ends the second one picks up where the first one ends and only the earth remains which is really the toil that the generations have put forth.
— from Takeoff Into Chaos · Ecclesiastes by King Solomon
In the book
Pliny said plainly that the only certainty is that nothing is certain; Churchill grumbled that the future is just one damned thing after another. Our own book of Ecclesiastes looked the same fact in the eye without flinching: one generation goes and another comes and only the earth remains; the sun rises and sets and hurries back to rise again; what has been is what will be, and there is nothing new under the sun. And Kohelet did not stop at the comfortable cosmic view. — Takeoff Into Chaos