Ecclesiastes 6:5
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New International Version (©1984)
Though it never saw the sun or knew anything, it has more rest than does that man--

New Living Translation (©2007)
and he would never have seen the sun or known of its existence. Yet he would have had more peace than in growing up to be an unhappy man.

English Standard Version (©2001)
Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.

New American Standard Bible (©1995)
"It never sees the sun and it never knows anything; it is better off than he.

GOD'S WORD® Translation (©1995)
Though it has never seen the sun or known anything, the baby finds more rest than the rich person.

King James Bible
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

American King James Version
Moreover he has not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this has more rest than the other.

American Standard Version
moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

Bible in Basic English
Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

Douay-Rheims Bible
He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:

Darby Bible Translation
moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other.

English Revised Version
moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:

Webster's Bible Translation
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

World English Bible
Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.

Young's Literal Translation
Even the sun he hath not seen nor known, more rest hath this than that.

Geneva Study Bible

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

Wesley's Notes

6:5 More rest - Because he is free from all those encumbrances and vexations to which the covetuous man is long exposed.

Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Bible Commentary

5. this-yet "it has more rest than" the toiling, gloomy miser.

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.


Ecclesiastes 6:4 for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.
Ecclesiastes 6:6 "Even if the other man lives a thousand years twice and does not enjoy good things-- do not all go to one place?" (NASB ©1995)

Better Finds Gratification Moreover Rather Rest Sun


Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

this Job 3:10-13 14:1 Ps 58:8 90:7-9

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