Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
Ecclesiastes 6:5 in other translations
| BSB | The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man, |
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| WEB | Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other. |
| ASV | moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other: |
| YLT | Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that. |
| DARBY | moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other. |
| BBE | Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other. |
| Webster | Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other. |
What does Ecclesiastes 6:5 mean?
Jamieson-Fausset-Brown
Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset & David Brown, 1871 · public domain
Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on Ecclesiastes 6:1-6
The vanity of riches. Also of long life and flourishing families. (Eccl. 6:1-6) The little advantage any one has in outward things. (Eccl. 6:7-12) Verses 1-6 A man often has all he needs for outward enjoyment; yet the Lord leaves him so to covetousness or evil dispositions, that he makes no good or comfortable use of what he has. By one means or other his possessions come to strangers; this is vanity, and an evil…
Ecclesiastes 6:5 in the original Hebrew
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Cross references for Ecclesiastes 6:5
- Psalms 90:7-9
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance. For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
- Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
- Psalms 58:8
As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
- Job 3:10-13
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly? Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck? For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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Job 3:10-13; 14:1; Ps 58:8; 90:7-9
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Context
- Ecclesiastes 6:4
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
- Ecclesiastes 6:5
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
- Ecclesiastes 6:6
Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
Ecclesiastes 6:5 in other languages
| Spanish Reina-Valera 1909 | Aunque no haya visto el sol, ni conocido nada, más reposo tiene éste que aquél. |
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| French Bible J.N. Darby 1885 | et aussi il n’a pas vu et n’a pas connu le soleil: celui-ci a plus de repos que celui-là. |
| German Elberfelder 1871 | auch hat sie die Sonne nicht gesehen noch gekannt. Diese hat mehr Ruhe als jener. |
| Latin Clementine Vulgate | Non vidit solem, neque cognovit distantiam boni et mali. |