Ecclesiastes 6:4
Good News Translation
It does that baby no good to be born; it disappears into darkness, where it is forgotten.

Douay-Rheims Bible
For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.

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

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Psalm 109:13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

Context
The Futility of Life
3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he. 4For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.5He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:…
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Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

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

Additional Translations
For he enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

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

For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered in darkness.

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

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

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

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

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