“Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.”
The observation that the stillborn has not seen or known the sun, finding more rest than the unsuccessful person, extends the comparison by suggesting that ignorance and unconsciousness provide refuge from the pain of awareness. The stillborn, never awakening to consciousness, never experiences the frustration of potential unfulfilled. This verse intimates that consciousness and knowledge, gifts that Ecclesiastes normally values, can become burdens when accompanied by the inability to find satisfaction.
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