Matthew Poole and continuators on Ecclesiastes 6:4

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

Or rather, Although, as this Particle is frequently rendred. For [illegible: 1+ letters]is Verse seems to contain not so much a reason of what he las[illegible: 1+ letters] that an untimely Birth is better than he, as an answer to an excep[illegible: 1+ letters] which might be made against it, Although all that is here said be true of the Abortive, yet it is better than he.

Either 1. the covetous Man. Or rather 2. the Abortive; of whom alone, and not of the former, that passage is true, He hath not seen the Sun, v. 5

Into the World, this word being oft put for a Man's being Born, as Iob 1. 21. Eccles. 5. 15.

Or, in vain, to no purpose; without any comfort or benefit by it, which also is in a great measure the case of the covetous wretch.

Dieth obscurely without any Observation or regard of men.

Shall be speedily and utterly forgotten, whereas the Name of such wicked men shall rot, and be remembred to their shame.