Ecclesiastes 6:4 - The Scriptures 2009

for it comes in futility and goes away in 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

Let his descendants be cut off, Their name be blotted out in the next generation.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man brings forth a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial-place, I say that a premature birth is better than he,

Ecclesiastes 6:5

even the sun it has not seen – it has more rest than that man.