Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
World English Bible Catholic
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 it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
Cross References
Job 3:10because it didn’t shut up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor did it hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 14:1“Man, who is born of a woman, is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalms 90:7For we are consumed in your anger. We are troubled in your wrath.
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 →