Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known rest: 1 There is no more rest to this one than another. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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 vanity, and departs in darkness, 1 And his name shall be covered in darkness. 1
Cross References
Job 3:10Because it shut not up the gates of my mother’s womb, 1 For so it would have removed sorrow from my eyes. 1
Job 14:1For a mortal born of a woman is short-lived, and full of wrath. 1
Psalms 90:7A thousand shall fall at thy side, 1 And ten thousand at thy right hand; 1 But it shall not come nigh thee. 1
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 →