Ecclesiastes 6:4
For he commeth to naught, & spendeth his tyme in darknesse, and his name is forgotten.
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- Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posteritie come to destruction: and in the next generation let his name be cleane put out.
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- Eccl 6:5-62 verses80%
5 Moreouer he seeth not the sunne, and knoweth not of it: and yet hath he more rest then the other.
6 Yea, though he lyued two thousande yeres, yet hath he no good lyfe: Come not all to one place?
- Eccl 5:14-174 verses79%
14 For oft tymes they perishe with his great miserie and trouble: and yf he haue a chylde, it getteth nothyng.
15 Lyke as he came naked out of his mothers wombe, so goeth he thyther agayne, and caryeth nothyng away with him of all his labour.
16 This is a miserable plague, that he shall go euen as he came away: What helpeth it him then that he hath laboured in the wynde?
17 All the dayes of his lyfe also he dyd eate in the darke, with great carefulnesse, sicknesse, and sorowe.
- Job 18:17-182 verses77%
17 His remembraunce shall perishe from the earth, and he shall haue no name in the streete.
18 They shall driue him from the light into darkenesse, and chaste him cleane out of the worlde.
- Eccl 6:1-33 verses77%
1 There is yet a plague vnder the sunne, and it is a generall thyng among men:
2 when God geueth a man riches, goodes, and honour, so that he wanteth nothyng of all that his heart can desire, and yet God geueth him not leaue to enioy the same, but another man spendeth them: This is a vayne thyng and a miserable plague.
3 If a man beget a hundred children, and lyue many yeres, so that his dayes are many in number, and yet can not enioy his good, neither be buryed: as for him I say, that vntymely birth is better then he.
- Job 18:5-62 verses76%
5 Yea, the light of the vngodly shalbe put out, and the sparke of his fire shall not shine.
6 The light shall be darke in his dwelling, and his candle shall be put out with him.
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4 Man is lyke a thyng of naught: his dayes be lyke a shadowe that passeth away.
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8 If a man lyue many yeres, and be glad in them all, let hym remember the dayes of darknesse whiche shalbe manye, and that foloweth: Al thinges shalbe but vanitie.
- Eccl 6:10-123 verses75%
10 The thyng that hath ben, is named alredy, and knowen that it is euen man him selfe: neither may he go to lawe with him that is mightier then he.
11 Many thinges there be that encrease vanitie, and what hath a man els?
12 For who knoweth what is good for man liuing in the dayes of his vayne life, whiche is but a shadowe? Or who wyl tell a man what shall happen after hym vnder the sunne?
- Job 14:1-22 verses75%
1 Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie.
2 He commeth vp, and is cut downe like a floure: He fleeth as it were a shadow, and neuer continueth in one state.
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19 But he shal folowe the generations of his fathers: and shall neuer see lyght.
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29 He shall not be riche, neither shall his substaunce continue, neither shal the prosperitie thereof be prolonged vpon earth.
30 He shall neuer depart out of darkenesse, the flame shal drye vp his branches, with the blast of ye mouth of God shall he be taken away.
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6 Truely man walketh in a vayne shadowe, truely he and all his do disquiet them selues in vayne: he heapeth vp riches, & can not tel who shal vse them.
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21 Forsomuch as a man shoulde weery hym selfe with wisdome, with vnderstandyng and oportunitie, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another that neuer sweat for them: This is also a vayne thyng, and great miserie.
22 For what getteth a man of all the labour and trauayle of his mynde that he taketh vnder the sunne?
23 But heauinesse, sorowe, and disquietnesse all the dayes of his life? Insomuch that his heart can not rest in the nyght: This is also a vayne thyng.
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15 And I perceaued that all men lyuyng vnder the sunne, go with the seconde childe that shall stande vp in the steade of the other.
16 As for the people that haue ben before him, and that come after him, they are innumerable, and they that come after him shall not reioyce in him: This is also a vayne thyng, and vexation of mynde.
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10 For I haue seene often the vngodly brought to their graues, and yet they haue returned into the citie agayne: and came from the place of holy men, whiche in the citie were growen out of memorie, as were those also that liued well: This is also a vayne thing.
- Job 3:4-63 verses72%
4 The same day be turned to darknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, neither let the light shyne vpon it:
5 But let it be stayned with darknesse and the shadowe of death, let the dimme cloude fall vpon it, whiche may make it terrible as a most bitter day.
6 Let the darke storme ouercome that night, and let it not be ioyned vnto the dayes of the yere, nor counted in the number of the monethes.
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26 All darknesse shalbe hid in their secrete places, an vnkindled fire shal consume him: and loke what remaineth in his house, it shalbe destroyed.
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9 The cloude is consumed and vanished away: so he that goeth downe to the graue shall come no more vp,
10 Nor turne againe into his house, neither shall his place knowe him any more.
- Eccl 4:7-82 verses71%
7 Moreouer I turned me, and beholde yet another vanitie vnder the sunne.
8 There is one man, no mo but himselfe alone, hauing neither childe nor brother, yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches: yet saith he not for whom do I take such trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life? This is also a vayne and miserable thyng.
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5 The sunne aryseth, the sunne goeth downe, and returneth to his place, that he may there ryse vp agayne.
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17 For he shall cary nothyng away with hym when he dyeth: neither shall his pompe folowe after hym.
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9 Let the starres of that night be dimme thorowe darkenesse of it, let it loke for light, but haue none, neither let it see the dawning of the day:
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23 He wandreth abrode for bread where it is, knowing that the day of darkenesse is redie at his hande.
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22 Loke what lyeth hid in darkenesse he declareth it openly, and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light.
- Eccl 4:3-42 verses71%
3 Yea him that is yet vnborne, to be better at ease then they both: because he seeth not the miserable workes that are done vnder the sunne.
4 Agayne, I sawe that all trauayle and diligence of labour that euery man taketh in hande, was done of enuie agaynst his neighbour: This is also a vayne thyng, and a vexation of mynde.
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3 For what els hath a man of all the labour that he taketh vnder the sunne?
- Job 10:21-222 verses70%
21 Afore I go thyther from whence I shall not turne againe, euen to the lande of darknesse and shadowe of death:
22 Yea a lande as darke as darknesse it selfe, and into the shadowe of death where is none order, but the light is there as darknesse.
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8 He shall vanishe as a dreame, so that he can no more be founde, and shal passe away as a vision in the night.
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19 And who knoweth whether he shalbe a wise man or a foole? And yet shall he be lorde of all my laboures which I with such wisdome haue taken vnder the sunne: This is also a vayne thyng.