Ecclesiastes 6:4

Authorized King James Version (1611)

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

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  • Ps 109:13 : 13 Let his posterity be cut off; [and] in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

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    5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other.

    6Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

  • Eccl 5:14-17
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    14But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.

    15As he came forth of his mother's womb, naked shall he return to go as he came, and shall take nothing of his labour, which he may carry away in his hand.

    16And this also [is] a sore evil, [that] in all points as he came, so shall he go: and what profit hath he that hath laboured for the wind?

    17All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

  • Job 18:17-18
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    17His remembrance shall perish from the earth, and he shall have no name in the street.

    18He shall be driven from light into darkness, and chased out of the world.

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    1¶ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is] common among men:

    2A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this [is] vanity, and it [is] an evil disease.

    3If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.

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    5¶ Yea, the light of the wicked shall be put out, and the spark of his fire shall not shine.

    6The light shall be dark in his tabernacle, and his candle shall be put out with him.

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    4Man is like to vanity: his days [are] as a shadow that passeth away.

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    8But if a man live many years, [and] rejoice in them all; yet let him remember the days of darkness; for they shall be many. All that cometh [is] vanity.

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    10That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it [is] man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.

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    12For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?

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    1¶ Man [that is] born of a woman [is] of few days, and full of trouble.

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    19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

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    29He shall not be rich, neither shall his substance continue, neither shall he prolong the perfection thereof upon the earth.

    30He shall not depart out of darkness; the flame shall dry up his branches, and by the breath of his mouth shall he go away.

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    6Surely every man walketh in a vain shew: surely they are disquieted in vain: he heapeth up [riches], and knoweth not who shall gather them.

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    21For there is a man whose labour [is] in wisdom, and in knowledge, and in equity; yet to a man that hath not laboured therein shall he leave it [for] his portion. This also [is] vanity and a great evil.

    22For what hath man of all his labour, and of the vexation of his heart, wherein he hath laboured under the sun?

    23For all his days [are] sorrows, and his travail grief; yea, his heart taketh not rest in the night. This is also vanity.

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    15I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

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    10And so I saw the wicked buried, who had come and gone from the place of the holy, and they were forgotten in the city where they had so done: this [is] also vanity.

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    4Let that day be darkness; let not God regard it from above, neither let the light shine upon it.

    5Let darkness and the shadow of death stain it; let a cloud dwell upon it; let the blackness of the day terrify it.

    6As [for] that night, let darkness seize upon it; let it not be joined unto the days of the year, let it not come into the number of the months.

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    26All darkness [shall be] hid in his secret places: a fire not blown shall consume him; it shall go ill with him that is left in his tabernacle.

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    9[As] the cloud is consumed and vanisheth away: so he that goeth down to the grave shall come up no [more].

    10He shall return no more to his house, neither shall his place know him any more.

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    7¶ Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

    8There is one [alone], and [there is] not a second; yea, he hath neither child nor brother: yet [is there] no end of all his labour; neither is his eye satisfied with riches; neither [saith he], For whom do I labour, and bereave my soul of good? This [is] also vanity, yea, it [is] a sore travail.

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    5The sun also ariseth, and the sun goeth down, and hasteth to his place where he arose.

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    17For when he dieth he shall carry nothing away: his glory shall not descend after him.

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    9Let the stars of the twilight thereof be dark; let it look for light, but [have] none; neither let it see the dawning of the day:

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    23He wandereth abroad for bread, [saying], Where [is it]? he knoweth that the day of darkness is ready at his hand.

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    22He discovereth deep things out of darkness, and bringeth out to light the shadow of death.

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    3Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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    3What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun?

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    21Before I go [whence] I shall not return, [even] to the land of darkness and the shadow of death;

    22A land of darkness, as darkness [itself; and] of the shadow of death, without any order, and [where] the light [is] as darkness.

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    8He shall fly away as a dream, and shall not be found: yea, he shall be chased away as a vision of the night.

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    19And who knoweth whether he shall be a wise [man] or a fool? yet shall he have rule over all my labour wherein I have laboured, and wherein I have shewed myself wise under the sun. This [is] also vanity.