Ecclesiastes 6:5
He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:
Douay-Rheims 1899
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
4For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
Cross References
Job 3:10Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, nor took away evils from my eyes.
Job 14:1Man born of a woman, living for a short time, is filled with many miseries.
Psalms 90:7For in thy wrath we have fainted away: and are troubled in thy indignation.
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 →