Ecclesiastes 6:4

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

Douay-Rheims 1899

In The King James Version

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

In Context

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.

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

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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 →

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