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The Book of Ecclesiastes, Chapter 6, Verse 4

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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.
King James Version
For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
American Standard Version
for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
New English Translation
Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,
World English Bible
for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.
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Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other.
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Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?
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All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.
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For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?
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Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.
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That which hath been is named already, and it is known that it [is] man: neither may he contend with him that is mightier than he.
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Seeing there be many things that increase vanity, what [is] man the better?
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For who knoweth what [is] good for man in [this] life, all the days of his vain life which he spendeth as a shadow? for who can tell a man what shall be after him under the sun?
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A good name [is] better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.
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[It is] better to go to the house of mourning, than to go to the house of feasting: for that [is] the end of all men; and the living will lay [it] to his heart.