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Friday, July 18th, 2025
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
the Week of Proper 10 / Ordinary 15
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Ecclesiastes 6:4
For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
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Christian Standard Bible®
For he comes in futility and he goes in darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.
For he comes in futility and he goes in darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.
Hebrew Names Version
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
King James Version
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
English Standard Version
For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered.
For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered.
New American Standard Bible
for a miscarriage comes in futility and goes into darkness; and its name is covered in darkness.
for a miscarriage comes in futility and goes into darkness; and its name is covered in darkness.
New Century Version
A baby born dead is useless. It returns to darkness without even a name.
A baby born dead is useless. It returns to darkness without even a name.
Amplified Bible
for the miscarriage comes in futility (in vain) and passes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.
for the miscarriage comes in futility (in vain) and passes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.
World English Bible
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
Geneva Bible (1587)
For he commeth into vanitie and goeth into darkenesse: and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
For he commeth into vanitie and goeth into darkenesse: and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
Legacy Standard Bible
for that one comes in vanity and goes into darkness; and that one's name is covered in darkness.
for that one comes in vanity and goes into darkness; and that one's name is covered in darkness.
Berean Standard Bible
For he enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.
For he enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.
Contemporary English Version
That child will never live to see the sun or to have a name, and it will go straight to the world of darkness. But it will still find more rest than you,
That child will never live to see the sun or to have a name, and it will go straight to the world of darkness. But it will still find more rest than you,
Complete Jewish Bible
For the arrival of a stillborn baby is a futile thing, and its departure is in darkness; its name is [forgotten,] covered in darkness;
For the arrival of a stillborn baby is a futile thing, and its departure is in darkness; its name is [forgotten,] covered in darkness;
Darby Translation
For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;
For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;
Easy-to-Read Version
It is senseless when a baby is born dead. The baby is quickly buried in a dark grave, without even a name.
It is senseless when a baby is born dead. The baby is quickly buried in a dark grave, without even a name.
George Lamsa Translation
For he comes in with vanity, and shall go into darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
For he comes in with vanity, and shall go into darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Good News Translation
It does that baby no good to be born; it disappears into darkness, where it is forgotten.
It does that baby no good to be born; it disappears into darkness, where it is forgotten.
Lexham English Bible
For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.
For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.
Literal Translation
For he comes in with vanity, and goes out in darkness; his name shall be covered in darkness.
For he comes in with vanity, and goes out in darkness; his name shall be covered in darkness.
Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
For he cometh to naught, & goeth his waye in to darcknes, and his name is forgotten.
For he cometh to naught, & goeth his waye in to darcknes, and his name is forgotten.
American Standard Version
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
Bible in Basic English
In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.
In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.
JPS Old Testament (1917)
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
King James Version (1611)
For he commeth in with vanitie, and departeth in darkenesse, and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
For he commeth in with vanitie, and departeth in darkenesse, and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
Bishop's Bible (1568)
For he commeth to naught, & spendeth his tyme in darknesse, and his name is forgotten.
For he commeth to naught, & spendeth his tyme in darknesse, and his name is forgotten.
Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered in darkness.
For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered in darkness.
English Revised Version
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
Wycliffe Bible (1395)
For he cometh in veyn, and goith to derknessis; and his name schal be don a wei bi foryetyng.
For he cometh in veyn, and goith to derknessis; and his name schal be don a wei bi foryetyng.
Update Bible Version
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
Webster's Bible Translation
For he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
For he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
New English Translation
Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,
Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,
New King James Version
for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
New Living Translation
His birth would have been meaningless, and he would have ended in darkness. He wouldn't even have had a name,
His birth would have been meaningless, and he would have ended in darkness. He wouldn't even have had a name,
New Life Bible
For this child comes for nothing and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered.
For this child comes for nothing and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered.
New Revised Standard
For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
For, in vain, it came in, and, in darkness, it departeth, - and, with darkness, its name, is covered:
For, in vain, it came in, and, in darkness, it departeth, - and, with darkness, its name, is covered:
Revised Standard Version
For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
For it comes into vanity and goes into darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;
Young's Literal Translation
For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,
For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,
New American Standard Bible (1995)
for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.
for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.
Contextual Overview
1 There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men: 2 A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery. 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he. 4 For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten. 5 He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil: 6 Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?
Bible Verse Review
from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge
his name: Psalms 109:13
Reciprocal: Exodus 10:21 - darkness
Cross-References
Genesis 6:15
And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
And thus shalt thou make it. The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits: the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
Genesis 6:20
Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
Of fowls according to their kind, and of beasts in their kind, and of every thing that creepeth on the earth according to its kind: two of every sort shall go in with thee, that they may live.
Genesis 6:21
Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.
Thou shalt take unto thee of all food that may be eaten, and thou shalt lay it up with thee: and it shall be food for thee and them.
Genesis 6:22
And Noe did all things which God commanded him.
And Noe did all things which God commanded him.
Genesis 11:4
And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
And they said: Come, let us make a city and a tower, the top whereof may reach to heaven; and let us make our name famous before we be scattered abroad into all lands.
Numbers 13:33
(13-34) There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
(13-34) There we saw certain monsters of the sons of Enac, of the giant kind: in comparison of whom, we seemed like locusts.
Numbers 16:2
Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by name.
Rose up against Moses, and with them two hundred and fifty others of the children of Israel, leading men of the synagogue, and who in the time of assembly were called by name.
Deuteronomy 3:11
For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man’s hand.
For only Og king of Basan remained of the race of the giants. His bed of iron is shewn, which is in Rabbath of the children of Ammon, being nine cubits long, and four broad after the measure of the cubit of a man’s hand.
1 Samuel 17:4
And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six cubits and a span:
And there went out a man baseborn from the camp of the Philistines, named Goliath, of Geth, whose height was six cubits and a span:
Gill's Notes on the Bible
For he cometh in with vanity,.... The Targum adds, "into this world." Some understand this of the abortive, and render it, "though he cometh in with vanity" x, yet is to be preferred to the covetous man: others interpret it of the covetous man himself; and scrape of both: or, however, they may be compared together in these instances; the abortive comes into the world in vain, for nothing, and answers no purpose, as can well be observed; and the same may be said of a covetous rich man; he walks in a vain show, and is altogether vanity, in his coming in, in his life, and going out;
and departeth in darkness; or, "into darkness" y; goes out of the world without any notice taken of him; and goes down to the dark grave, where he lies in obscurity;
and his name shall be covered with darkness; the abortive has no name, and is never spoken of; and so the name and memory of such a man as is here described rot and perish: and in this respect the abortive has the preference to him; for though he is covered with darkness, yet no ill is ever spoken of him; whereas the name of the wicked covetous man is cursed.
x ×× ×× "quamvis venit", Drusius. y ×××©× "in tenebrositatem", Montanus; "in tenebras", Tigurine version, Mercerus, so Broughton.
Barnes' Notes on the Bible
He ... his - Rather, it ... its. The untimely birth is spoken of.
