Ecclesiastes 6:5
even the sun he has not seen nor known, more rest has this than that.
Literal Standard 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
4For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goes, and in darkness his name is covered,
Cross References
Job 3:10Because it has not shut the doors || Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from my eyes.
Job 14:1“Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!
Psalms 90:7For we were consumed in Your anger, || And we have been troubled in 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 →