Parallel Verses
A Conservative Version
For it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name of it is covered with darkness.
New American Standard Bible
for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.
King James Version
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Holman Bible
For he comes in futility and he goes in darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.
International Standard Version
because stillborn children arrive in pointlessness, leave in darkness, and their names are covered in darkness.
American Standard Version
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
Amplified
for the miscarriage comes in futility (in vain) and passes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.
Bible in Basic English
In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.
Darby Translation
For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;
Julia Smith Translation
For in vanity he came, and in darkness he will go away, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
King James 2000
For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Lexham Expanded Bible
For he comes into vanity and departs into darkness, and his name is shrouded in darkness.
Modern King James verseion
For he comes in with vanity and goes out in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
Modern Spelling Tyndale-Coverdale
For he cometh to naught, and goeth his way into darkness, and his name is forgotten.
NET Bible
Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,
New Heart English Bible
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
The Emphasized Bible
For, in vain, it came in, and, in darkness, it departeth, - and, with darkness, its name, is covered:
Webster
For he cometh 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.
Youngs Literal Translation
For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,
Interlinear
Shem
Word Count of 20 Translations in Ecclesiastes 6:4
Verse Info
Context Readings
Those Who Have Wealth But Do Not Enjoy It Are Pitiful
3 If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. 4 For it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name of it is covered with darkness. 5 Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it, this [one] has rest rather than the other.
Names
Cross References
Psalm 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off. In the generation following let their name be blotted out.