Ecclesiastes 6:5

KJV1611 – Modern English

Moreover, it has not seen the sun nor known anything: this has more rest than the other.

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  • Job 3:10-13 : 10 Because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide sorrow from my eyes. 11 Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not expire when I came out of the belly? 12 Why were there knees to receive me? Or why breasts that I should nurse? 13 For now I would have lain still and been quiet, I would have slept: then I would have been at rest,
  • Job 14:1 : 1 Man who is born of a woman is of few days and full of trouble.
  • Ps 58:8 : 8 As a snail that melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
  • Ps 90:7-9 : 7 For we are consumed by your anger, and by your wrath are we troubled. 8 You have set our iniquities before you, our secret sins in the light of your countenance. 9 For all our days are passed away in your wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.

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  • Eccl 6:6-12
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    82%

    6Yes, even if he lives a thousand years twice over, yet has seen no good: do not all go to one place?

    7All the labor of man is for his mouth, and yet his appetite is not satisfied.

    8For what has the wise more than the fool? what does the poor have, who knows to walk before the living?

    9Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of desire: this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

    10That which has been is already named, and it is known that it is man: nor can he contend with one mightier than he.

    11Since there are many things that increase vanity, what advantage does man have?

    12For who knows what is good for man in this life, all the days of his vain life which he spends as a shadow? For who can tell a man what will be after him under the sun?

  • Eccl 6:1-4
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    1There is an evil I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

    2A man to whom God has given riches, wealth, and honor, so that he wants nothing for his soul of all he desires, yet God does not give him the power to eat of it, but a stranger eats it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.

    3If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, yet his soul is not filled with good, and indeed he has no burial; I say, that a premature birth is better than he.

    4For it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

  • Eccl 4:2-3
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    2Therefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.

    3Yes, better is he than both, who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 2:21-23
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    75%

    21For there is a man whose labor is with wisdom, knowledge, and skill. Yet he must leave his inheritance to a man who has not labored for it. This also is vanity and a great evil.

    22For what has man from all his labor, and of the striving of his heart with which he has labored under the sun?

    23For all his days are sorrowful, and his work is burdensome; even at night his heart takes no rest. This also is vanity.

  • Eccl 5:14-17
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    14But those riches perish through misfortune, and he begets a son, and there is nothing in his hand.

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

    16And this also is a grievous evil, that in all points as he came, so shall he go; and what profit has he who has labored for the wind?

    17All his days he also eats in darkness, and he has much sorrow and wrath with his sickness.

  • Eccl 1:5
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    5The sun also rises, and the sun goes down, and hurries to its place where it arose.

  • Eccl 8:16-17
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    16When I applied my heart to know wisdom and to see the work that is done upon the earth (for there are those who neither day nor night see sleep with their eyes),

    17Then I saw all the work of God, that a man cannot find out the work that is done under the sun. Even though a man labors to seek it out, he shall not find it; moreover, though a wise man thinks to know it, he shall not be able to find it.

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3What profit does a man have from all his labor which he does under the sun?

  • Eccl 9:5-6
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    5For the living know that they shall die, but the dead know nothing, nor have they any more a reward; for the memory of them is forgotten.

    6Also their love, and their hatred, and their envy, is now perished; neither have they any more a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.

  • Eccl 4:7-8
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    7Then I returned, and I saw vanity under the sun.

    8There is one alone, without a second; yes, he has neither child nor brother, yet there is no end to all his labor, nor is his eye satisfied with riches, nor does he ask, 'For whom do I labor and deprive my soul of good?' This is also vanity, yes, it is a grievous toil.

  • Ps 49:19
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    19He shall go to the generation of his fathers; they shall never see light.

  • Eccl 11:7-8
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    7Truly the light is sweet, and it is pleasant for the eyes to behold the sun.

    8But if a man lives many years, and rejoices in them all, let him remember the days of darkness, for they will be many. All that comes is vanity.

  • Job 7:9-10
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    9As the cloud is consumed and vanishes away, so he who goes down to the grave shall come up no more.

    10He shall return no more to his house, nor shall his place know him anymore.

  • Job 14:6
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    6Look away from him, that he may rest, till he shall accomplish, as a hired man, his day.

  • Job 14:12
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    12So man lies down and does not rise; till the heavens are no more, they shall not awake nor be raised out of their sleep.

  • Job 20:9
    72%

    9The eye which saw him shall see him no more, neither shall his place behold him any longer.

  • Job 27:19
    71%

    19The rich man shall lie down, but he shall not be gathered; he opens his eyes, and he is no more.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
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    15I considered all the living who walk under the sun, with the second child who shall stand up in his place.

    16There is no end of all the people, even of all who have been before them; they also that come after will not rejoice in him. Surely this also is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20For he will not much remember the days of his life because God keeps him occupied with the joy of his heart.

  • Eccl 8:10
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    10Then 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 done so. This also is vanity.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19And who knows whether he will be wise or a fool? Yet he will rule over all my labor in which I have labored and in which I have shown myself wise under the sun. This also is vanity.

  • Eccl 5:12
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    12The sleep of a laboring man is sweet, whether he eats little or much; but the abundance of the rich will not allow him to sleep.

  • Eccl 2:16-17
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    16For there is no more remembrance of the wise than of the fool forever, since what now is will all be forgotten in the days to come. And how does the wise man die? Just like the fool.

    17Therefore I hated life, because the work that was done under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

  • Job 3:17
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    17There the wicked cease from troubling; there the weary are at rest.

  • Eccl 8:7
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    7For he does not know what shall be; for who can tell him when it shall be?

  • Eccl 1:9
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    9The thing that has been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.

  • Job 18:6
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    6The light shall be dark in his dwelling, and his lamp shall be put out with him.

  • Job 15:29
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    29He shall not be rich, nor shall his wealth continue, nor shall he prolong the perfection of it upon the earth.