American Standard Version
"for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness; "
— Ecclesiastes 6:4, American Standard Version
“For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.”
“for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.”
“Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,”
“For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.”
“In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.”
“For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.”
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:
a man to whom God giveth riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacketh nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but an alien eateth it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:
yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoy no good, do not all go to one place?
All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.