Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover it never saw the sun, and knew nothing: this hath more rest than the other.
Leeser Tanakh
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 in vanity it came, and in darkness it departeth, and with darkness will its name be covered.
Cross References
Job 3:10Because God closed not against me the doors of the womb, and thus concealed trouble from my eyes.
Job 14:1Man born of a woman is short of days, and sated with harrowing trouble.
Psalms 90:7For [thus] are we consumed by thy anger, and by thy fury are we terrified.
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 →