Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 1:4

4 One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh but the earth abideth for ever .

i. e. Through all successive Generations of men: and therefore Man in this respect is more mutable and miserable than the very Earth upon which he stands. and which, together with all the glories and comforts which he enjoyed in it, he leaveth behind him to be possessed by others.

k Men continue but for one, and that a short Age, and then they leave all their possessions to the succeding Age, and therefore they cannot be happy here, because happiness must needs be unchangeable and eternal, or else the perpetual fear and certain knowledge of the approaching loss of all these things will rob a Man of all solid contentment in them.

Marginal references: Ps. 104. 5. & 119. 9.; Heb. standeth.