Ecclesiastes 6:4 - King James Version with Apocrypha - American Edition

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

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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.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁴ 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; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

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

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.