Ecclesiastes 6:4
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For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.

Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:5
He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:

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

his name

Psalm 109:13 May his posterity be cut off; in one generation may his name be blotted out.

Context
The Futility of Life
3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he. 4For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.5He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil:…
Lexicon
For
כִּֽי־ (kî-)
Conjunction
Strong's Hebrew 3588: A relative conjunction

he enters
בָּ֖א (bā)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 935: To come in, come, go in, go

in futility
בַהֶ֥בֶל (ḇa·he·ḇel)
Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1892: Emptiness, vanity, transitory, unsatisfactory

and departs
יֵלֵ֑ךְ (yê·lêḵ)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 1980: To go, come, walk

in darkness,
וּבַחֹ֣שֶׁךְ (ū·ḇa·ḥō·šeḵ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2822: The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness

and his name
שְׁמ֥וֹ (šə·mōw)
Noun - masculine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 8034: A name

is shrouded
יְכֻסֶּֽה׃ (yə·ḵus·seh)
Verb - Pual - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 3680: To plump, fill up hollows, to cover

in obscurity.
וּבַחֹ֖שֶׁךְ (ū·ḇa·ḥō·šeḵ)
Conjunctive waw, Preposition-b, Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's Hebrew 2822: The dark, darkness, misery, destruction, death, ignorance, sorrow, wickedness


Additional Translations
For he enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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