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Ecclesiastes 6:4
For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.
King James Version
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
World English Bible
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
American Standard Version
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
Geneva Bible 1599
For he commeth into vanitie and goeth into darkenesse: and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
Darby Translation
For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;
Young's Literal Translation
For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,
Bible in Basic English
In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.
3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
5The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,
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