Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Revised Standard Version (RSV-CI)

⁴ 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

⁴ For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁴ For [the untimely one] comes in futility and goes into darkness, and in darkness his name is covered.

American Standard Version (1901)

⁴ for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

Common English Bible

⁴ Because that child arrives pointlessly, then passes away in darkness. Darkness covers its name.

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁴ For he arrives without a purpose and he continues on into darkness, and his name shall be wiped away, into oblivion.

Ecclesiastes 6:4 Krydshenvisninger

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.