Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
Ecclesiastes 6:4 - King James 2000 For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. Tuilleadh leaganachaKing James Version (Oxford) 1769 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. Amplified Bible - Classic Edition For [the untimely one] comes in futility and goes into darkness, and in darkness his name is covered. American Standard Version (1901) for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness; Common English Bible Because that child arrives pointlessly, then passes away in darkness. Darkness covers its name. Catholic Public Domain Version 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 For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten. |
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that a stillborn birth is better than he.
Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this one has more rest than the other.