KING JAMES BIBLE · PCE
Ecclesiastes 6:4–5
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Ecclesiastes 6:4
4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
4For he commeth in with vanitie, and departeth in darkenesse, and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
Ecclesiastes 6:5
5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
5Moreouer hee hath not seene the Sunne, nor knowen any thing: this hath more rest then the other.
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DEFINED WORDS
Ecclesiastes 6:4
Emptiness, worthlessness, transience, futile desire, or excessive self-regard.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Leaves, goes away, or turns aside.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE) · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
Absence of light; also obscurity, ignorance, distress, or moral evil by figure.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A word or appellation by which a person or thing is known; also reputation, character, authority, remembrance, or the person represented, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: Webster 1828 · KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
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Ecclesiastes 6:5
Recognized, understood, perceived, acknowledged, or made evident.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
One, some, or every member or amount of an indefinite number or quantity, according to context.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Webster 1828 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
A greater amount, number, or degree; in a greater degree.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
Repose, relief, or cessation from labour; also what remains.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611)
A different or additional person or thing; the remaining one of two or more.
Meaning drawn from: KJV usage (PCE + 1611) · Skeat 1893 · Strong 1890 (KJV alignment witness)
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From verse 4
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Open the full verse study13Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.
From verse 5
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Open the full verse study1MAN that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
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Open the full verse study10Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes.
11Why died I not from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?
12Why did the knees prevent me? or why the breasts that I should suck?
13For now should I have lain still and been quiet, I should have slept: then had I been at rest,
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Open the full verse study8As a snail which melteth, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
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Open the full verse study7For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled.
8Thou hast set our iniquities before thee, our secret sins in the light of thy countenance.
9For all our days are passed away in thy wrath: we spend our years as a tale that is told.
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