Ecclesiastes 6:3 - The Scriptures 1998

³ If a man brings forth a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a premature birth is better than he,

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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

And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, “Who are these with you?” And he said, “The children with whom Elohim has favoured your servant.”

Genesis 47:9

And Yaʽ

2 Kings 10:1

And Aḥ

2 Kings 9:35

So they went to bury her, but all they found of her was the skull and the feet and the palms of the hands.

1 Chronicles 28:5

“And of all my sons – for יהוה  has given me many sons – He has chosen my son Shelomoh to sit on the throne of the reign of יהוה  over Yisra’ĕ

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Reḥ

Esther 5:11

And Haman recounted to them the esteem of his wealth, and his many sons, and all in which the sovereign had promoted him, and how he had exalted him above the officials and servants of the sovereign.

Esther 7:10

And they impaled Haman on the stake that he had prepared for Mordeḵ

Job 3:11

Why did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?

Job 3:16

or as a hidden untimely birth, as infants who never saw light?

Psalm 58:8

Like a snail which melts away as it moves, Like a woman’s stillbirth, Let them not see the sun!

Proverbs 17:6

Children’s children are the crown of old men, And the adornment of children is their fathers.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And better than both is he who has never existed, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

for it comes in futility and goes away in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;

Jeremiah 22:19

“He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, dragged and thrown outside the gates of Yerushalayim.

Jeremiah 36:30

‘Therefore thus said יהוה  concerning Yehoyaqim sovereign of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 8:2

and shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of the heavens, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought, and to which they have bowed themselves. They shall not be gathered nor buried, they shall be for dung on the face of the earth.

Matthew 26:24

“Indeed, the Son of Aḏ