Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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 posterity be cut off; In the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man beget an hundred children and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

Ecclesiastes 6:5

moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other: