Ecclesiastes 6:4 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

For it comes in vanity and goes 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

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

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man may father a hundred children and live many years, but however many are the days of his years, if he does not enjoy life’s good things or has no burial, I say that a stillborn child 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.