Ecclesiastes 6:3

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

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.]

Cross References

Genesis 33:5

[Esau] looked up and saw the women and the children and said, Who are these with you? And [Jacob] replied, They are the children whom God has graciously given your servant.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are 130 years; few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and they have not attained to those of the life of my fathers in their pilgrimage.

2 Kings 10:1

AHAB HAD seventy [grandsons] in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them from Jezreel to the rulers of Samaria, to the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab's [grandsons], saying,

2 Kings 9:35

They went to bury her, but they found nothing left of her except the skull, feet, and palms of her hands.

1 Chronicles 28:5

And of all my sons, for the Lord has given me many sons, He has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter [granddaughter] of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines–for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Esther 5:11

And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the abundance of his [ten] sons, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

Esther 7:10

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

Job 3:11

Why was I not stillborn? Why did I not give up the ghost when my mother bore me?

Job 3:16

Or [why] was I not a miscarriage, hidden and put away, as infants who never saw light?

Psalm 58:8

Let them be as a snail dissolving slime as it passes on or as a festering sore which wastes away, like [the child to which] a woman gives untimely birth that has not seen the sun.

Proverbs 17:6

Children's children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their fathers. [Ps. 127:3; 128:3.]

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better than them both [I thought] is he who has not yet been born, who has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

For [the untimely one] comes in futility and goes into darkness, and in darkness his name is covered.

Jeremiah 22:19

[No] he shall be buried with the burial of a donkey–dragged out and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no [heir] to sit upon the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat by day and to the frost by night.

Jeremiah 8:2

And they will [carelessly] scatter [the corpses] before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which [the dead] have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked and which they have sought, inquired of, and required and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered, or be buried; they shall be like dung upon the face of the earth.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man is going just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better (more profitable and wholesome) for that man if he had never been born! [Ps. 41:9.]