Ecclesiastes 6:4
World English Bible (WEB)
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
In context
2 a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him no power to eat of it, but an alien eats it. This is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
3 If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he;
4 for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet fails to enjoy good, don’t all go to one place?
Ecclesiastes 6:4 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
- KJV King James Version
- For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.
- ASV American Standard Version
- for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
- YLT Young's Literal Translation
- For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,
- DBY Darby Translation
- For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;
- WBS Webster Bible
- For he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.