Ecclesiastes 6:5

He never saw the light of day or knew what it was like to live. Yet the child finds rest, and not this man.

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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

4The way a stillborn child comes into the world and then leaves is painfully hard to understand—arriving and departing in darkness—and who he would have been is never known.

6Even if this man were to live a thousand years twice over he still wouldn't be happy. Don't we all end up in the same place—the grave?

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Cross References

Job 3:10for it did not shut my mother's womb to prevent me from seeing trouble.

Job 14:1“Life is short and full of trouble,

Psalms 90:7We are burned up by your anger, terrified by your fury.

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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