Ecclesiastes 6:3

Modern English Version

If a man is a father to a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are numerous, but his life is not satisfied with the many good things, and there is not one of his children to eventually bury him, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he —

Cross References

Genesis 33:5

When Esau looked up and saw the women and the children, he said, “Who are those with you?” Jacob said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred and thirty years. My days of the years of my life have been few and evil, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the lives of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

2 Kings 10:1

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the captains of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying,

2 Kings 9:35

So they went to bury her, but they found nothing of her except a skull, 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 my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than his other wives and concubines (for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines), and he had twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Esther 5:11

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, his many children, and everything about him the king had praised, and how he had promoted him over the princes and servants of the king.

Esther 7:10

Then the king said, “Hang him on it!” So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath was pacified.

Job 3:11

“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not expire when I came out of the womb?

Job 3:16

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like infants who never saw light?

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like a snail that melts as it goes, like the stillborn child of a woman, who never sees the sun.

Proverbs 17:6

Children’s children are the crown of old men, and the glory of children is their father.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better than both is the one who has not been, who will not observe the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

for the child comes in vanity, and then leaves in darkness, and in darkness his name is covered up.

Jeremiah 22:19

He will be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David. And his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

Jeremiah 8:2

And they will 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 worshipped. They will not be gathered or be buried. They will 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 would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”