Ecclesiastes 6:3

Contemporary English Version (Anglicised) 2012

You may live a long time and have a hundred children. But a child born dead is better off than you, unless you enjoy life and have a decent burial.

Cross References

Genesis 33:5

When Esau noticed the women and children he asked, “Whose children are these?” Jacob answered, “These are the ones the LORD has been kind enough to give to me, your servant.”

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, “I have lived only a hundred and thirty years, and I have had to move from place to place. My parents and my grandparents also had to move from place to place. But they lived much longer, and their life was not as hard as mine.”

2 Kings 10:1

Ahab still had seventy descendants living in Samaria. So Jehu wrote a letter to each of the important leaders and officials of the town, and to those who supported Ahab. In the letters he wrote:

2 Kings 9:35

But when they went out to bury her body, they found only her skull, her hands, and her feet.

1 Chronicles 28:5

The LORD has blessed me with many sons, but he chose my son Solomon to be the next king of Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rehoboam had eighteen wives, but he also married sixty other women, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. Rehoboam loved his wife Maacah the most,

Esther 5:11

and started boasting about his great wealth and all his sons. He told them the many ways that the king had honoured him and how all the other officials and leaders had to respect him.

Esther 7:10

Straight away, Haman was hanged on the tower he had built to hang Mordecai, and the king calmed down.

Job 3:11

Why didn't I die at birth?

Job 3:16

I wish I had been born dead and then buried, never to see the light of day.

Psalm 58:8

Let them dry up like snails or be like a child that dies before seeing the sun.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandparents are proud of their grandchildren, and children should be proud of their parents.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But those who have never been born are better off than anyone else, because they have never seen the terrible things that happen on this earth.”

Ecclesiastes 6:4

That child will never live to see the sun or to have a name, and it will go straight to the world of darkness. But it will still find more rest than you,

Jeremiah 22:19

You will be given a burial fit for a donkey; your body will be dragged outside the city gates and tossed in the dust. I, the LORD, have spoken.

Jeremiah 36:30

So I, the LORD, promise that you will be killed and your body thrown out on the ground. The sun will beat down on it during the day, and the frost will settle on it at night. And none of your descendants will ever be king of Judah.

Jeremiah 8:2

who loved and worshipped the sun, moon, and stars. These bones will be scattered and left lying on the ground like rubbish, where the sun and moon and stars can shine on them.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man will die, as the Scriptures say. But it's going to be terrible for the one who betrays me! That man would be better off if he had never been born.”