Ecclesiastes 6:3

Hebrew Names version (HNV)

If a man fathers a hundred children, 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

Genesis 33:5

He lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, *Who are these with you?* He said, *The children whom God has graciously given your servant.*

Genesis 47:9

Ya`akov said to Par`oh, *The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred 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 fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.*

2 Kings 10:1

Now Ach'av had seventy sons in Shomron. Yehu wrote letters, and sent to Shomron, to the rulers of Yizre`el, even the elders, and to those who brought up [the sons of] Ach'av, saying,

2 Kings 9:35

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

1 Chronicles 28:5

Of all my sons (for the LORD has given me many sons), he has chosen Shlomo my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Yisra'el.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rechav`am loved Ma`akhah the daughter of Avshalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

Esther 5:11

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, 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 Mordekhai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

Job 3:11

*Why didn't I die from the womb? Why didn't I give up the spirit when my mother bore me?

Job 3:16

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

Proverbs 17:6

Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

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

Ecclesiastes 6:4

for it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

Jeremiah 22:19

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

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Yehoiakim king of Yehudah: He shall have none to sit on 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 army of the sky, which they have loved, and which they have served, and after which they have walked, and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried, they shall be for dung on the surface of the earth.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born.*