Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

⁴ 1 There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.

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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 Cross References

Psalm 109:13

0 This is the work of them who detract me before the Lord; and who speak evils against my soul.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

0 He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

2 What needeth a man to seek things that are above him, whereas he knoweth not what is profitable for him in his life, in all the days of his pilgrimage, and the time that passeth like a shadow? Or who can tell him what shall be after him under the sun?