Ecclesiastes 6:5
The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,
BSB
ASV
moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:
KJV
Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
On account of the inexperience of good, he adds: "he does not see the sun," in which namely there is delight and experience of good, according to what is said below in the eleventh chapter: "The light is sweet, and it is delightful for the …
Rare words are the text's own signal of a deliberate thread: the fewer the occurrences, the more the places it appears belong together.
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Follow this verse’s cross-references two steps out. Each card is a verse this one points to, and beneath it the verses that one points to in turn. Where several different paths arrive at the same place, that place is listed first: the text keeps returning to it. Every stop shows its own words, and every stop is a page.
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Job 14:1“Man, who is born of woman, is short of days and full of trouble.
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Yet man is born to trouble as surely as sparks fly upward.
How then can a man be just before God? How can one born of woman be pure?
Indeed, all his days are filled with grief, and his task is sorrowful; even at night, his mind does not rest. This too is futile.
Truly I tell you, among those born of women there has risen no one greater than John the Baptist. Yet even the least in the kingdom of heaven is greater than he.
“Is not man consigned to labor on earth? Are not his days like those of a hired hand?
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Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
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Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial,…
I have seen a wicked, ruthless man flourishing like a well-rooted native tree,