Ecclesiastes 6:3 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

³ 0 He that shall be, his name is already called: and it is known, that he is man, and cannot contend in judgment with him that is stronger than himself.

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

³ If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his life is not filled with good, and also he is given no burial [honors nor is laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], I say that [he who had] an untimely birth [resulting in death] is better off than he, [Job 3:16.]

American Standard Version (1901)

³ If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

Common English Bible

³ Some people may have one hundred children and live a long life. But no matter how long they live, if they aren’t content with life’s good things, I say that even a stillborn child with no grave is better off than they are.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:3 Cross References

Genesis 33:5

Then the handmaids and their children came near, and bowed themselves.

Genesis 47:9

0 And blessing the king, he went out.

2 Kings 10:1

And he wrote letters the second time to them, saying: If you be mine, and will obey me, take the heads of the sons of your master, and come to me to Jezrahel by to morrow this time. Now the king's sons, being seventy men, were brought up with the chief men of the city.

2 Kings 9:35

Choose the best, and him that shall please you most of your master's sons, and set him on his father's throne, and fight for the house of your master.

1 Chronicles 28:5

0 Now therefore seeing the Lord hath chosen thee to build the house of the sanctuary, take courage, and do it.

2 Chronicles 11:21

With twelve hundred chariots and threescore thousand horsemen: and the people were without number that came with him out of Egypt, to wit, Libyans, and Troglodites, and Ethiopians.

Esther 5:11

They came to that place where it was written, how Mardochai had discovered the treason of Bagathan and Thares the eunuchs, who sought to kill king Assuerus.

Esther 7:10

And said: If it please the king, and if I have found favour in his sight, and my request be not disagreeable to him, I beseech thee, that the former letters of Aman the traitor and enemy of the Jews, by which he commanded that they should be destroyed in all the king's provinces, may be reversed by new letters.

Job 3:11

6 Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.

Job 3:16

1 That look for death, and it cometh not, as they that dig for a treasure:

Psalm 58:8

Neither is it my iniquity, nor my sin, O Lord: without iniquity have I run, and directed my steps.

Proverbs 17:6

3 He that rendereth evil for good, evil shall not depart from his house.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

0 If one fall he shall be supported by the other: woe to him that is alone, for when he falleth, he hath none to lift him up.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

1 There are many words that have much vanity in disputing.

Jeremiah 22:19

7 And they shall not return into the land, whereunto they lift up their mind to return thither.

Jeremiah 36:30

And the word of the Lord came to Jeremias the prophet, saying:

Jeremiah 8:2

0 Therefore I will give their women to strangers, their fields to others for an inheritance: because from the least even to the greatest all follow covetousness: from the prophet even to the priest, all deal deceitfully.

Matthew 26:24

2 But after I shall be risen again, I will go before you into Galilee.