4for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.


In Context

1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

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 Other Translations

The King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

The New International Version of the Holy Bible

6:4It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded.

The Douay-Rheims Version of the Holy Bible

6:4For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.

The American Standard Version of the Holy Bible

6:4for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

The Darby Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:4For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;

The English Revised Version of the Holy Bible

6:4for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

The Webster Bible Translation of the Holy Bible

6:4For he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

The Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

6:4For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

6:4For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.