Ecclesiastes 6:3

Lighthouse Bible 2006

If a man begets a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he has no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

Cross References

Genesis 33:5

And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with you? And he said, The children which God has graciously given your servant.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and 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

And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to those who brought up Ahab’s children, saying,

2 Kings 9:35

And 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

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 Maachah the daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines; and begot twenty eight sons, and sixty daughters.)

Esther 5:11

And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and 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 was the king’s anger pacified.

Job 3:11

Why did I not die from the womb? why did I not give up the ghost when I came out of the belly?

Job 3:16

Or as a hidden untimely birth I would not have been; as infants which never saw light.

Psalm 58:8

As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the untimely birth of a woman, that they may not see the sun.

Proverbs 17:6

Children’s children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children are their fathers.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

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

Ecclesiastes 6:4

For he comes in with vanity, and departs in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Jeremiah 22:19

He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, dragged and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore thus says the LORD concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be thrown 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 host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshiped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be as dung upon the face of the earth.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of man goes as it is written of him: but woe to that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! It had been good for that man if he had not been born.