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Ecclesiastes 6:5

Death and loss

3 If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

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

6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

7 All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

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BSB
The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,
KJV
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
WEB
Moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it. This has rest rather than the other.
ASV
moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:
DARBY
moreover it hath not seen nor known the sun: this hath rest rather than the other.
BLB
Even he has not seen the sun and has not known it, more rest [is] unto this one than this one.
ÅB
og det har hverken sett eller kjent solen; det har mere ro enn han.
OTB
Selv om det ikke har sett solen eller kjent noe, finner det mer hvile enn den mannen.
B1930
og det har hverken sett eller kjent solen; det har mere ro enn han.

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