Ecclesiastes 6:5 · KJV
“Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known {any thing}: this hath more rest than the other.”
— Ecclesiastes 6:5
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice {told}, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
Ecclesiastes 6 — Context
If a man beget an hundred {children}, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also {that} he have no burial; I say, {that} an untimely birth {is} better than he.
4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known {any thing}: this hath more rest than the other.
6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice {told}, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
7All the labour of man {is} for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled. {appetite: Heb. soul}
Cross References
Job 3:10-13
Because it shut not up the doors of my {mother's} womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
Job 14:1
Man {that is} born of a woman {is} of few days, and full of trouble. {few...: Heb. short of days}
Psalms 90:7-9
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
Psalms 58:8
As a snail {which} melteth, let {every one of them} pass away: {like} the untimely birth of a woman, {that} they may not see the sun.
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