Ecclesiastes 6:5 — KJV with Strong's Concordance

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⁵Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.

Ecclesiastes 6:5 —

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Cross-References

From the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Job 14:1
Man that is born of a woman is of few days, and full of trouble.
Psalms 58:8
As 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.
Psalms 90:7-9
For we are consumed by thine anger, and by thy wrath are we troubled. …
Job 3:10-13
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. …

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. 5)

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