Ecclesiastes 6:4 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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

Ecclesiastes 6:4 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Psalms 109:13
Let his posterity be cut off; and in the generation following let their name be blotted out.

Commentary

Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)

(vv. 1-6)

Solomon had shown, in the close of the foregoing chapter, how good it is to make a comfortable use of the gifts of God’s providence; now here he shows the evil of the contrary, having and not using, gathering to lay up for I know not what contingent emergencies to come, not to lay out on the most urgent occasions present. This is an evil which Solomon himself saw under the sun, Eccl. 6:1. A great…

Robert Jamieson, A. R. Fausset, David Brown’s Jamieson-Fausset-Brown Commentary (1871)

(vv. 4)

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.