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

New Revised Standard Version
For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;

New American Bible
Though it came in vain and goes into darkness and its name is enveloped in darkness,

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

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

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

his name

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:…
Cross References
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:

Ecclesiastes 6:3
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