Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Revised Standard Version

For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

For [the untimely one] comes in futility and goes into darkness, and in darkness his name is covered.

American Standard Version (1901)

for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

Common English Bible

Because that child arrives pointlessly, then passes away in darkness. Darkness covers its name.

Catholic Public Domain Version

For he arrives without a purpose and he continues on into darkness, and his name shall be wiped away, into oblivion.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 6:4 Cross References

Psalm 109:13

May his posterity be cut off; may his name be blotted out in the second generation!

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but he does not enjoy life's good things, and also has no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better off than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

moreover it has not seen the sun or known anything; yet it finds rest rather than he.