Ecclesiastes 6:5
Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.
Bible in Basic English
In The King James Version
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
In Context
4In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.
Cross References
Job 3:10Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.
Job 14:1As for man, the son of woman, his days are short and full of trouble.
Psalms 90:7We are burned up by the heat of your passion, and troubled by your wrath.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 6:2-7
The Miseries of Covetousness. 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: 2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. 3 If a man beget a 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… Read the whole commentary →