Ecclesiaste 6:5

5 non ha neppur visto né conosciuto il sole e nondimeno ha più riposo di quell’altro.

Ecclesiaste 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.

Ecclesiaste 6:5 In-Context

3 Se uno generasse cento figliuoli, vivesse molti anni sì che i giorni de’ suoi anni si moltiplicassero, se l’anima sua non si sazia di beni ed ei non ha sepoltura, io dico che un aborto è più felice di lui;

4 poiché l’aborto nasce invano, se ne va nelle tenebre, e il suo nome resta coperto di tenebre;

5 non ha neppur visto né conosciuto il sole e nondimeno ha più riposo di quell’altro.

6 Quand’anche questi vivesse due volte mille anni, se non gode benessere, a che pro? Non va tutto a finire in un medesimo luogo?

7 Tutta la fatica dell’uomo è per la sua bocca, e nondimeno l’appetito suo non è mai sazio.