Ecclesiastes 6:4 - Modern English Version

⁴ for the child comes in vanity, and then leaves in darkness, and in darkness his name is covered up.

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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 Tagairtí Cros

Psalm 109:13

Let his posterity be cut off, and in the generation following let his name be blotted out.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

If a man is a father to a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are numerous, but his life is not satisfied with the many good things, and there is not one of his children to eventually bury him, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he —

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Moreover, he has not observed the sun or experienced the sun; yet this child finds rest rather than he.