Ecclesiastes 6:1

Updated Bible Version

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on man:

Parallel Translations

Legacy Standard Bible
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men—

New American Standard Bible (1995)
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun and it is prevalent among men—

Bishop's Bible (1568)
There is yet a plague vnder the sunne, and it is a generall thyng among men:

Darby Translation
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is frequent among men:

New King James Version
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

Literal Translation
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it is great among men:

Easy-to-Read Version
I have seen another thing in this life that is not fair and is very hard to understand.

World English Bible
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

King James Version (1611)
There is an euill which I haue seen vnder the Sun, and it is common among men:

King James Version
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:

Miles Coverdale Bible (1535)
There is yet a plage vnder ye Sonne, & it is a generall thinge amonge me:

THE MESSAGE
I looked long and hard at what goes on around here, and let me tell you, things are bad. And people feel it. There are people, for instance, on whom God showers everything—money, property, reputation—all they ever wanted or dreamed of. And then God doesn't let them enjoy it. Some stranger comes along and has all the fun. It's more of what I'm calling smoke. A bad business.

Amplified Bible
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily on men:

American Standard Version
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

Bible in Basic English
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard on men;

Webster's Bible Translation
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is] common among men:

New English Translation
Here is another misfortune that I have seen on earth, and it weighs heavily on people:

Contemporary English Version
There is something else terribly unfair, and it troubles everyone on earth.

Complete Jewish Bible
I have seen another evil under the sun, and it weighs heavily on people:

Geneva Bible (1587)
There is an euill, which I sawe vnder the sunne, and it is much among men:

George Lamsa Translation
THERE is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men;

Hebrew Names Version
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on men:

JPS Old Testament (1917)
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

New Living Translation
There is another serious tragedy I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily on humanity.

New Life Bible
There is another bad thing which I have seen under the sun, and it is hard for men:

Brenton's Septuagint (LXX)
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is abundant with man:

English Revised Version
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy upon men:

Berean Standard Bible
There is another evil I have seen under the sun, and it weighs heavily upon mankind:

New Revised Standard
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon humankind:

J.B. Rotherham Emphasized Bible
Here was an evil, I had seen under the sun, - and it is, common, among men:

Douay-Rheims Bible
There is also another evil, which I have seen under the sun, and that frequent among men:

Lexham English Bible
Here is another misfortune that I have seen under the sun, and it is prevalent among humankind.

English Standard Version
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy on mankind:

New American Standard Bible
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is widespread among mankind:

New Century Version
I have seen something else wrong here on earth that causes serious problems for people.

Good News Translation
I have noticed that in this world a serious injustice is done.

Christian Standard Bible®
Here is a tragedy I have observed under the sun, and it weighs heavily on humanity:

Wycliffe Bible (1395)
Also another yuel is, which Y siy vndur the sunne; and certis it is oft vsid anentis men.

Revised Standard Version
There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it lies heavy upon men:

Young's Literal Translation
There is an evil that I have seen under the sun, and it [is] great on man:

Contextual Overview

¹ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is heavy on man: ² a man to whom God gives riches, wealth, and honor, so that he lacks nothing for his soul of all that he desires, yet God does not give him power to eat thereof, but an alien eats it; this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. ³ If a man begets a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he: ⁴ for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness; ⁵ moreover it has not seen the sun nor known it; this has rest rather than the other: ⁶ yes, though he lives a thousand years twice told, and yet enjoys no good, do not all go to one place?

Bible Verse Review
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Ecclesiastes 5:13

Reciprocal: Ecclesiastes 9:13 - General Ecclesiastes 10:5 - an evil

Cross-References

Genesis 1:28
And God blessed them: and God said to them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the earth, and subdue it; and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the birds of the heavens, and over every living thing that moves on the earth.

Gill's Notes on the Bible

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun,.... The Vulgate Latin version reads it, another evil; but wrongly, for the same is considered as before, the evil of covetousness; which is one of the evil things that come out of the heart of man; is abominable to the Lord, contrary to his nature and will, and a breach of his law, which forbids it, and is the root of all evil; this is an evil under the sun, for there is nothing of this kind above it; and it fell under the observation of Solomon in various instances;

and it [is] common among men; or, "great over men" u; or "over the man", the covetous man: it spreads itself over them; few were free from it, even so long ago, in those early times, and in such times in which silver was made no account of, and was like stones in Jerusalem, as common as they; and yet the sin of covetousness, of hoarding up money and making no use of it, for a man's own good, and the good of others, was very rife among men, 1 Kings 10:27.

u ורבה היא על האדם "et multum ipsum super hominem", Montanus; "et magaum est illud super hominem istum", Rambachius.

Barnes' Notes on the Bible

Common among - Rather, great (heavy) upon people.

Clarke's Notes on the Bible

CHAPTER VI

The vanity of riches without use, 1, 2.

Of children and of old age without riches and enjoyment, 3-7.

Man does not know what is good for himself, 8-12.

NOTES ON CHAP. VI