Ecclesiastes 6:3

Good News Translation

We may have a hundred children and live a long time, but no matter how long we live, if we do not get our share of happiness and do not receive a decent burial, then I say that a baby born dead is better off.

Cross References

Genesis 33:5

When Esau looked around and saw the women and the children, he asked, “Who are these people with you?” “These, sir, are the children whom God has been good enough to give me,” Jacob answered.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob answered, “My life of wandering has lasted a hundred and thirty years. Those years have been few and difficult, unlike the long years of my ancestors in their wanderings.”

2 Kings 10:1

There were seventy descendants of King Ahab living in the city of Samaria. Jehu wrote a letter and sent copies to the rulers of the city, to the leading citizens, and to the guardians of Ahab's descendants. The letter read:

2 Kings 9:35

But the men who went out to bury her found nothing except her skull and the bones of her hands and feet.

1 Chronicles 28:5

He gave me many sons, and out of them all he chose Solomon to rule over Israel, the Lord's kingdom.

2 Chronicles 11:21

In all, Rehoboam had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters. Of all his wives and concubines he loved Maacah best,

Esther 5:11

He boasted to them about how rich he was, how many sons he had, how the king had promoted him to high office, and how much more important he was than any of the king's other officials.

Esther 7:10

So Haman was hanged on the gallows that he had built for Mordecai. Then the king's anger cooled down.

Job 3:11

I wish I had died in my mother's womb or died the moment I was born.

Job 3:16

or sleeping like a stillborn child.

Psalm 58:8

May they be like snails that dissolve into slime; may they be like a baby born dead that never sees the light.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandparents are proud of their grandchildren, just as children are proud of their parents.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better off than either are those who have never been born, who have never seen the injustice that goes on in this world.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

It does that baby no good to be born; it disappears into darkness, where it is forgotten.

Jeremiah 22:19

With the funeral honors of a donkey, he will be dragged away and thrown outside Jerusalem's gates.”

Jeremiah 36:30

So now, I, the Lord, say to you, King Jehoiakim, that no descendant of yours will ever rule over David's kingdom. Your corpse will be thrown out where it will be exposed to the sun during the day and to the frost at night.

Jeremiah 8:2

Instead of being gathered and buried, their bones will be like manure lying on the ground. They will be spread out before the sun, the moon, and the stars, which these people have loved and served, and which they have consulted and worshiped.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man will die as the Scriptures say he will, but how terrible for that man who will betray the Son of Man! It would have been better for that man if he had never been born!”