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


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?

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 Young's Literal Translation of the Holy Bible

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

The American King James Version of the Holy Bible

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