Ecclesiastes 6:4 - The Scriptures 1998

⁴ for it comes in futility and goes away 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.

Ecclesiastes 6:4 Cross References

Psalm 109:13

Let his descendants be cut off, Their name be blotted out in the next generation.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man brings forth a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a premature birth is better than he,

Ecclesiastes 6:5

even the sun it has not seen – it has more rest than that man.