Ecclesiastes 6:5 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

⁵ moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

⁵ Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

⁵ Moreover, he has not seen the sun nor had any knowledge, yet he [the stillborn child] has rest rather than he [who is aware of all that he has missed and all that he would not have had to suffer].

American Standard Version (1901)

⁵ moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

Common English Bible

⁵ It hasn’t seen the sun or experienced anything. But it has more peace than those

Catholic Public Domain Version

⁵ He has not seen the sun, nor recognized the difference between good and evil.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

⁵ He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:

Ecclesiastes 6:5 Cross References

Job 14:1

“A mortal, born of woman, few of days and full of trouble,

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like the snail that dissolves into slime, like the untimely birth that never sees the sun.

Ecclesiastes 11:7

Light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

but better than both is the one who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;

Ecclesiastes 6:6

Even though he should live a thousand years twice over yet enjoy no good—do not all go to one place?