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Ecclesiastes 6:4
For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
Ecclesiastes 6:4 · Douay-Rheims Bible (Challoner)
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Ecclesiastes 6:4 in other translations
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
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In context
1 There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:
2 A man to whom God hath given riches, and substance, and honour, and his soul wanteth nothing of all that he desireth: yet God doth not give him power to eat thereof, but a stranger shall eat it up. This is vanity and a great misery.
3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.
4 For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.
5 He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:
6 Although he lived two thousand years, and hath not enjoyed good things: do not all make haste to one place?
7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, but his soul shall not be filled.
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