Écclésiaste 5:15

Louis Segond

Comme il est sorti du ventre de sa mère, il s'en retourne nu ainsi qu'il était venu, et pour son travail n'emporte rien qu'il puisse prendre dans sa main.

Parallel Translations

La Bible David Martin (1744)
Et comme il est sorti [nu] du ventre de sa mère, il s'en retournera nu, s'en allant comme il est venu, et il n'emportera rien de son travail auquel il a employé ses mains.

La Bible Ostervald (1996)
Et, comme il est sorti nu du sein de sa mère, il s'en retournera nu, s'en allant comme il est venu; et il n'emportera rien qu'il puisse prendre dans sa main.

Darby's French Translation
Comme il est sorti du ventre de sa mère, il s'en retournera nu, s'en allant comme il est venu, et de son travail il n'emportera rien qu'il puisse prendre dans sa main.

Bible Verse Review
  from Treasury of Scripure Knowledge

Job 1:21, Psalms 49:17, Luke 12:20, 1 Timothy 6:7

Reciprocal: Genesis 3:19 - till Job 5:7 - trouble Ecclesiastes 11:8 - All that James 1:11 - so

Gill's Notes on the Bible

As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came,.... This may be understood either of the covetous rich man, or of his son; and that supposing what is before said should not be the case of either of them, but they should possess their substance as long as they live; yet, when they come to die, they will be stripped of them all; of their gold and silver, their plate and jewels, and rich household furniture; of their cattle and possessions, farms and estates, which are no longer theirs; and even of their very clothes, and be as naked as they were when they came into the world; and which is indeed the case of every man, Job 1:21; and is used as an argument, and a very forcible one, against covetousness;

and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand; nothing of his substance, which he has got by his labour, and hoarded up with great care; not the least portion of it can he carry away with him when he dies; not any of his jewels, nor bags of gold and silver; and if any of these should be put into his grave, which has been sometimes done at the interment of great personages, these are of no manner of use and service to him, either to comfort and refresh his body, or to save his soul from hell, and procure it an entrance into the heavenly glory; see 1 Timothy 6:7. The Targum allegorizes this in a very orthodox way, not very usual, in favour of original sin, and against the doctrine of merit;

"as he goes out of his mother's womb naked, without a covering, and without any good; so he shall return to go to the house of his grave, indigent of merit, as he came into this world; and no good reward shall he receive by his labour, to take with him into the world to which he goes, that it may be for merit in his hand.''

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

Verse 15. As he came forth — However it may be, he himself shall carry nothing with him into the eternal world. If he die worth millions, those millions are dead to him for ever; so he has had no real profit from all his labours, cares, anxieties, and vast property!