| Geneva Study Bible For {d} he cometh with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. (d) Meaning, the untimely fruit whose life neither profited nor hurt any. Wesley's Notes 6:4 He - The abortive; of whom alone, that passage is true, hath not seen the sun, ver.5. Cometh - Into the world. In vain - To no purpose; without any comfort or benefit by it. Departeth - Without any observation or regard of men. His name - Shall be speedily and utterly forgotten. Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary 4. he-rather "it," "the untimely birth." So "its," not "his name." with vanity-to no purpose; a type of the driftless existence of him who makes riches the chief good. darkness-of the abortive; a type of the unhonored death and dark future beyond the grave of the avaricious. Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary 6:1-6 A man often has all he needs for outward enjoyment; yet the Lord leaves him so to covetousness or evil dispositions, that he makes no good or comfortable use of what he has. By one means or other his possessions come to strangers; this is vanity, and an evil disease. A numerous family was a matter of fond desire and of high honour among the Hebrews; and long life is the desire of mankind in general. Even with these additions a man may not be able to enjoy his riches, family, and life. Such a man, in his passage through life, seems to have been born for no end or use. And he who has entered on life only for one moment, to quit it the next, has a preferable lot to him who has lived long, but only to suffer. | 
