Ecclesiastes 6:3

A Conservative Version

If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives 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.

Cross References

Job 3:16

Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.

Jeremiah 22:19

He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yea, better than them both [is] him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

2 Kings 9:35

And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my father

Matthew 26:24

The Son of man indeed goes as it is written about him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of man is betrayed! It were good for him if that man had not been born.

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore thus says LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David. And his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

Jeremiah 8:2

And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshipped. T

Proverbs 17:6

Son's sons are the crown of old men, and the glory of sons are their fathers.

Psalm 58:8

as a snail which melts and passes away, [as] the untimely birth of a woman, that has not seen the sun.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king's wrath was pacified.

Esther 5:11

And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the rulers and servants of the king.

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines. For he took eighteen wives, and thirty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and thirty daughters.

1 Chronicles 28:5

And of all my sons (for LORD has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of LORD over Israel.

2 Kings 10:1

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up [the sons of] Ahab, saying,

Genesis 33:5

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children, and said, Who are these with thee? And he said, The children whom God has graciously given thy servant.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

For it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name of it is covered with darkness.

Job 3:11

Why did I not die from the womb? Why did I not give up the spirit when my mother bore me?