ECC 6:4 Parallel Verse View

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OET (OET-RV) because that child came for no reason
⇔ and it went in darkness, and its name will be covered in darkness.

Key: khaki:verbs.
Note: Automatic aligning of the OET-RV to the LV is done by some temporary software, hence the OET-RV alignments are incomplete (and may occasionally be wrong).

BrLXX Ὅτι ἐν ματαιότητι ἦλθε, καὶ ἐν σκότει πορεύεται, καὶ ἐν σκότει ὄνομα αὐτοῦ καλυφθήσεται·
(Hoti en mataiotaʸti aʸlthe, kai en skotei poreuetai, kai en skotei onoma autou kalufthaʸsetai; )

BrTr For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered in darkness.

ULT For in vapor it came and in the darkness it will go and in the darkness its name will be covered.

UST This is true, even though that dead baby’s birth is meaningless—even though it does not have a name, and its brief life becomes only a sad memory in the future.

BSB For [a stillborn child] enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.

OEB birth, which, coming as a futility, departs in dark-

WEBBE for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

WMBB (Same as above)

NET Though the stillborn child came into the world for no reason and departed into darkness,
⇔ though its name is shrouded in darkness,

LSV For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goes, and in darkness his name is covered,

FBV The way a stillborn child comes into the world and then leaves is painfully hard to understand—arriving and departing in darkness—and who he would have been is never known.[fn]

6:4 Literally, “In darkness his name will be covered.” However, this is more than simply remaining nameless. Name in Hebrew thought is associated with character and personality, so what is being said here is that the stillborn child will never have the chance to become a person.

T4T That dead baby’s birth is meaningless; it does not even have a name. It goes directly to the place where there is only darkness.

LEB No LEB ECC book available

BBE In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

Moff No Moff ECC book available

JPS for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

ASV for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;

DRA For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.

YLT For in vanity he came in, and in darkness he goeth, and in darkness his name is covered,

Drby For it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness;

RV for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness;
(for it cometh/comes in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness; )

SLT For in vanity he came, and in darkness he will go away, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

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

KJB-1769 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
(For he cometh/comes in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. )

KJB-1611 For he commeth in with vanitie, and departeth in darkenesse, and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
(Modernised spelling is same as from KJB-1769 above)

Bshps No Bshps ECC book available

Gnva For he commeth into vanitie and goeth into darkenesse: and his name shall be couered with darkenesse.
(For he cometh/comes into vanity and goeth/goes into darkness: and his name shall be covered with darkness. )

Cvdl No Cvdl ECC book available

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Luth No Luth ECC book available

ClVg Frustra enim venit, et pergit ad tenebras, et oblivione delebitur nomen ejus.
(Frustra because he_came, and pergit to darkness, and oblivion delebitur name his. )

RP-GNT No RP-GNT ECC book available

UTN uW Translation Notes:

(Occurrence 0) such a baby is born in futility

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when in/on/at/with,vanity he/it_came and,in/on/at/with,darkness goes and,in/on/at/with,darkness his/its=name shrouded )

Alternate translation: “such a baby is born for nothing”

Note 1 topic: figures-of-speech / idiom

(Occurrence 0) passes away in darkness

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when in/on/at/with,vanity he/it_came and,in/on/at/with,darkness goes and,in/on/at/with,darkness his/its=name shrouded )

This speaks of the death of the baby being as unexplainable as “darkness.” Alternate translation: “dies unexplainably”

Note 2 topic: figures-of-speech / metaphor

(Occurrence 0) its name remains hidden

(Some words not found in UHB: that/for/because/then/when in/on/at/with,vanity he/it_came and,in/on/at/with,darkness goes and,in/on/at/with,darkness his/its=name shrouded )

This speaks of no one knowing the baby’s name as if it were a hidden object. Alternate translation: “no one knows its name”

Parallel ECC 6:4