Ecclesiastes 6:3

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

Cross References

Job 3:16

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

Jeremiah 22:19

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, rotten and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.

2 Kings 9:35

And when they went to bury her, they found nothing but the skull, and the feet, and the extremities of her hands.

Genesis 47:9

He answered: The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years, few, and evil. And they are not come up to the days of the pilgrimage of my fathers.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of man indeed goeth, as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man shall be betrayed: it were better for him, if that man had not been born.

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore thus saith the Lord against Joakim the king of Juda: He shall have none 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 shall spread them abroad to the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved and whom they have served and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought and adored. They shall not be gathered, and they shall not be buried: they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth.

Proverbs 17:6

Children's children are the crown of old men: and the glory of children are their fathers.

Psalm 58:8

Behold they shall speak with their mouth, and a sword is in their lips: for who, say they, hath heard us?

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Roboam loved Maacha the daughter of Absalom, above all his wives and concubines. For he had married eighteen wives, and threescore concubines. And he begot eight and twenty sons, and threescore daughters.

1 Chronicles 28:5

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

2 Kings 10:1

And Achab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the chief men of the city, and to the ancients, and to them that brought up Achab's children, saying:

Genesis 33:5

And lifting up his eyes, he saw the women and their children, and said: What mean these? And do they belong to thee? He answered: They are the children which God hath given to me thy servant.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.

Job 3:11

Why did I not die in the womb? Why did I not perish when I came out of the belly?