Ecclesiastes 6:4 Parallel Translations

A stillborn baby arrives in a pointless birth and goes out into the darkness. The darkness then hides its name.(GOD'S WORD®)

KJV:

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

ASV:

for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

BBE:

In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

DBY:

For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;

ERV:

for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

JPS:

for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

WBS:

For he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

WEB:

for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

YLT:

For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

Ecclesiastes 6:4 Cross References

XREF:

Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, "Better the miscarriage than he,

Ecclesiastes 6:5 "It never sees the sun and it never knows anything; it is better off than he. (NASB ©1995)

Commentaries and Concordances

GSB:

6:4 For {d} he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
(d) Meaning, the untimely fruit whose life neither profited nor hurt any.

WES:

6:4 He - The abortive; of whom alone, that passage is true, hath not seen the sun, ver.5. Cometh - Into the world. In vain - To no purpose; without any comfort or benefit by it. Departeth - Without any observation or regard of men. His name - Shall be speedily and utterly forgotten.

MHC:

6:1-6 A man often has all he needs for outward enjoyment; yet the Lord leaves him so to covetousness or evil dispositions, that he makes no good or comfortable use of what he has. By one means or other his possessions come to strangers; this is vanity, and an evil disease. A numerous family was a matter of fond desire and of high honour among the Hebrews; and long life is the desire of mankind in general. Even with these additions a man may not be able to enjoy his riches, family, and life. Such a man, in his passage through life, seems to have been born for no end or use. And he who has entered on life only for one moment, to quit it the next, has a preferable lot to him who has lived long, but only to suffer.

CONC:

Covered Dark Darkness Departeth Departs Futility Goes Obscurity Shrouded Thereof Vanity Wind

Covered Dark Darkness Departeth Departs Futility Goes Meaning Obscurity Shrouded Thereof Vanity Wind

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