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

⁴ 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

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

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.