Parallel Verses

Amplified

for the miscarriage comes in futility (in vain) and passes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.

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.

A Conservative Version

For it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name of it is covered with darkness.

American Standard Version

for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

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

English(KJV)
Strong's
Root Form
Definition
Usage
For he cometh

come, bring, ... in, enter, go, carry, ...down, pass, ...out,
Usage: 0

in with vanity
הבל הבל 
hebel 
Usage: 73

and departeth
ילך 
Yalak 
Usage: 0

חשׁך 
Choshek 
Usage: 78

and his name
שׁם 
Shem 
Usage: 865

כּסה 
Kacah 
Usage: 152

Verse Info

Context Readings

Those Who Have Wealth But Do Not Enjoy It Are Pitiful

3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he, 4 for the miscarriage comes in futility (in vain) and passes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity. 5 It has not seen the sun nor had any knowledge; yet it has more rest and is better off than he.


Cross References

Psalm 109:13


Let his descendants be cut off,
And in the following generation let their name be blotted out.

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