Ecclesiastes 6:4

Coverdale Bible (1535)

For he cometh to naught, & goeth his waye in to darcknes, and his name is forgotten.

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  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let the wickednesse of his fathers be had in remembraunce in the sight of the LORDE, and let not the synne of his mother be done awaye.

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  • Eccl 6:5-6
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    5Morouer, he seyth not the Sonne, and knoweth of no rest nether here ner there:

    6Yee though he lyued two thousande yeares, yet hath he no good life. Come not all to one place?

  • Eccl 5:14-17
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    79%

    14For oft times they perishe with his greate misery and trouble: and yf he haue a childe, it getteth nothinge.

    15Like as he came naked out of his mothers wombe, so goeth he thither agayne, and carieth nothinge awaye with him of all his laboure.

    16This is a miserable plage, yt he shal go awaye euen as he came. What helpeth it him then, yt he hath labored in the wynde?

    17All the daies of his life also must he eate in the darcke, with greate carefulnesse, sicknesse & sorow.

  • Job 18:17-18
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    17His remembraunce shall perish from the earth, & his name shall not be praysed in the stretes:

    18he shalbe dryuen from the light into darcknesse, and be cast clene out of the worlde.

  • Eccl 6:1-3
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    1There is yet a plage vnder ye Sonne, & it is a generall thinge amonge me:

    2when God geueth a man riches, goodes & honoure, so that he wanteth nothinge of all that his herte can desyre: and yet God geueth him not leue to enioye the same, but another man spedeth them. This is a vayne thinge & a miserable plage.

    3Yf a man begett an hundreth children, and lyue many yeares, so that his dayes are many in nombre, and yet can not enioye his good, nether be buried: as for him I saye, that an vntymely byrth is better then he.

  • Job 18:5-6
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    5Shal not the light of the vngodly be put out? yee the flame of his fyre shal not burne.

    6The light shalbe darcke in his dwellinge, & his candle shalbe put out with him.

  • Ps 144:4
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    4Man is like a thinge of naught, his tyme passeth awaye like a shadowe.

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8Yf a man lyue many yeares, and be glad in them all, let him remembre the dayes of darcknesse, which shalbe many: & when they come, all thinges shalbe but vanite.

  • Eccl 6:10-12
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    10What is more excellent then man? yet can he not in the lawe get the victory of him that is mightier the he:

    11A vayne thinge is it to cast out many wordes, but what hath a man els?

    12For who knoweth what is good for man lyuynge, in ye dayes of his vayne life, which is but a shadowe? Or, who wil tell a man, what shal happen after him vnder the Sonne?

  • Job 14:1-2
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    1Man that is borne of a woman, hath but a shorte tyme to lyue, and is full of dyuerse miseries.

    2He cometh vp, and falleth awaye like a floure. He flyeth as it were a shadowe, and neuer continueth in one state.

  • Ps 49:19
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    19But whe he foloweth his fathers generacion, he shal neuer se light eny more.

  • Job 15:29-30
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    29He shall not be rich, nether shall his substaunce continue, ner encrease vpon earth.

    30He shal neuer come out of darcknesse, the flame shal drye vp his braunches, with ye blast of the mouth of God shal he be take awaie.

  • Ps 39:6
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    6Beholde, thou hast made my dayes a spanne longe, and my life is as it were nothinge before the. O how vayne are all men lyuynge?

  • Eccl 2:21-23
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    21for so moch as a man shulde weery him self with wy?dome, with vnderstondinge and opportunite, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another, yt neuer swett for them. This is also a vayne thinge and a greate misery.

    22For what getteth a ma of all ye labor & trauayle of his mynde, yt he taketh vnder the Sonne,

    23but heuynesse, sorowe & disquyetnes all ye dayes of his life? In so moch that his herte can not rest in the night. Is not this also a vayne thinge?

  • Eccl 4:15-16
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    15And I perceaued, yt all men lyuynge vnder the Sonne, go wt the seconde childe, that commeth vp in the steade of the other.

    16As for the people that haue bene before him, and that come after him, they are innumerable: yet is not their ioye the greater thorow him. This is also a vayne thinge and a vexacion of mynde.

  • Eccl 8:10
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    10For I haue oft sene ye vngodly brought to their graues, and fallen downe from the hye and glorious place: in so moch yt they were forgotten in the cite, where they were had in so hye & greate reputacion. This is also a vayne thinge.

  • Job 3:4-6
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    4The same daye be turned to darcknesse, and not regarded of God from aboue, nether be shyned vpo wt light:

    5but be couered with darcknesse, and the shadowe of death. Let the dymme cloude fall vpon it, and let it be lapped in with sorowe.

    6Let the darckstorme ouercome ye night, let it not be reckened amonge the dayes off the yeare, ner counted in the monethes.

  • Job 20:26
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    26There shal no darcknes be able to hyde him. An vnkyndled fyre shal consume him, and loke what remayneth in his house, it shall be destroyed.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9as a cloude is cosumed and vanyshed awaye, euen so he that goeth downe to hell, commeth nomore vp,

    10ner turneth agayne in to his house, nether shall his place knowe him eny more.

  • Eccl 4:7-8
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    7Morouer, I turned me, and beholde yet another vanite vnder the Sonne.

    8There is one man, no mo but himself alone, hauynge nether childe ner brother: yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches, (yet doth he not remembre himself, & saye:) For whom do I take soch trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume awaye my lyfe? This is also a vayne and miserable thinge.

  • Eccl 1:5
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    5The Sone aryseth, the Sonne goeth downe, & returneth to his place, yt he maye there ryse vp agayne.

  • Ps 49:17
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    17For he shal cary nothinge awaye wt him when he dyeth, nether shal his pompe folowe him.

  • Job 3:9
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    9Let the starres be dymme thorow darcknesse of it. Let it loke for light, but let it se none, nether the rysynge vp of the fayre mornynge:

  • Job 15:23
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    23When he goeth forth to get his lyuinge, he thinketh planely, that the daye of darcknesse is at honde.

  • Job 12:22
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    22Loke what lyeth hyd in darcknesse, he declareth it opely: and the very shadowe of death bringeth he to light.

  • Eccl 4:3-4
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    3yee him that is yet vnborne to be better at ease the they both, because he seith not the miserable workes that are done vnder the Sonne.

    4Agayne, I sawe that all trauayle and diligence of laboure was hated of euery man. This is also a vaine thinge, and a vexacion of mynde.

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3For what els hath a ma, of all the labor yt he taketh vnder the Sonne?

  • Job 10:21-22
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    21afore I go thyther, from whence I shal not turne agayne: Namely, to that londe of darcknesse & shadowe of death:

    22yee into that darck clowdy londe & deadly shadowe, where as is no ordre, but terrible feare as in the darcknesse.

  • Job 20:8
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    8He vanysheth as a dreame, so that he can nomore be founde, & passeth awaye as a vision in ye night.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19for who knoweth, whether he shalbe a wyse ma or a foole? And yet shal he be lorde of all my labours, which I with soch wy?dome haue taken vnder the Sonne. Is not this a vayne thinge?