Verse 4
4. A view is now given of the race whom the inquiry concerns, and of the visible forms of nature the solemn decorations of their dwelling the self-renewing sun, wind, and streams.
One generation passeth away The oldest Greek poet compares the growths of men to successions of forest leaves. Koheleth suggests, with more than Homeric vigor, that he is to investigate where all, even man, is whirling, and only the dull earth permanent. Man, to his eye, is toiling, strutting, fretting, vanishing, while the stage on which he appears abides, and is ever filled with new actors.
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