5Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this has more rest than the other.


In Context

2 A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God gives him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

4 For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

5 Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this has more rest than the other.

6 Yes, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet has he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

7 All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

Ecclesiastes 6:5 in Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing:] this hath more rest than the other.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:5Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man-

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:5He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:5moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:5moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other.

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:5moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

The World English Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:5Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:5Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.