Ecclesiastes 6:5
He has not seen the sun, nor recognized the difference between good and evil.
Catholic Public Domain Version
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
Cross References
Job 3:10For it did not close the doors of the womb that bore me, nor take away evils from my eyes.
Job 14:1Man, born of woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
Psalms 90:7A thousand will fall before your side and ten thousand before your right hand. Yet it will not draw near you.
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 →