Eclesiastés 6:5

5 Aunque no haya visto el sol, ni conocido nada, más reposo tiene éste que aquel

Eclesiastés 6:5 Meaning and Commentary

Ecclesiastes 6:5

Moreover, he hath not seen the sun
This must be spoken of the abortive, and seems to confirm the sense of the former text, as belonging to it; and whereas it has never seen the light of the sun, nor enjoyed the pleasure and comfort of it, it is no ways distressing to it to be without it. The Targum is,

``the light of the law he seeth not; and knoweth not between good and evil, to judge between this world and that to come:''

so the Vulgate Latin version, "neither knows the difference of good and evil"; nor known [anything];
not the sun, nor anything else: or "experienced" ^F26 and "felt" the heat of the sun, and its comfortable influences; which a man may, who is blind, and has never seen it, but an abortive has not; and indeed has known no man, nor any creature nor thing in this world, and therefore it is no concern to it to be without them; and besides, has never had any knowledge or experience of the troubles of lifts, which every living man is liable to. Wherefore this is certain, this hath more rest than the other;
that is, the abortive than the covetous man; having never been distressed with the troubles of life, and now not affected with the sense of loss.

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FOOTNOTES:

F26 (edy alw) "ueque expertus est", Junius & Tremellius, Piscator, Rambachius, so Broughton.

Eclesiastés 6:5 In-Context

3 Si el hombre engendrare cien hijos, y viviere muchos años, y los días de su edad fueren numerosos; si su alma no se sació del bien, y también careció de sepultura, yo digo que el abortivo es mejor que él

4 Porque en vano vino, y a tinieblas va, y con tinieblas será cubierto su nombre

5 Aunque no haya visto el sol, ni conocido nada, más reposo tiene éste que aquel

6 Porque si aquel viviere mil años dos veces y no gozó del bien, ciertamente ambos van al mismo lugar

7 Todo el trabajo del hombre es para su boca, y con todo eso su deseo no se sacia