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Ecclesiastes 6:5

Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.

Young's Literal Translation

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 goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

6And though he had lived a thousand years twice over, yet good he hath not seen; to the same place doth not every one go?

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Cross References

Job 3:10Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.

Job 14:1Man, born of woman! Of few days, and full of trouble!

Psalms 90:7For we were consumed in Thine anger, And in Thy fury we have been troubled.

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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