Ecclesiastes 6:3

New Century Version

A man might have a hundred children and live a long time, but what good is it if he can’t enjoy the good God gives him or have a proper burial? I say a baby born dead is better off than he is.

Cross References

Genesis 33:5

When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these people with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has given me. God has been good to me, your servant.”

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to him, “My life has been spent wandering from place to place. It has been short and filled with trouble—only one hundred thirty years. My ancestors lived much longer than I.”

2 Kings 10:1

Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officers and elders of Jezreel and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab. Jehu said,

2 Kings 9:35

The men went to bury Jezebel, but they could not find her. They found only her skull, feet, and the palms of her hands.

1 Chronicles 28:5

The Lord has given me many sons, and from those sons he has chosen Solomon to be the new king of Israel. Israel is the Lord’s kingdom.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rehoboam loved Maacah more than his other wives and slave women. Rehoboam had eighteen wives and sixty slave women and was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Esther 5:11

He told them how wealthy he was and how many sons he had. He also told them all the ways the king had honored him and how the king had placed him higher than his important men and his royal officers.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the platform he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king was not so angry anymore.

Job 3:11

“Why didn’t I die as soon as I was born? Why didn’t I die when I came out of the womb?

Job 3:16

Why was I not buried like a child born dead, like a baby who never saw the light of day?

Psalm 58:8

Let them be like snails that melt as they move. Let them be like a child born dead who never saw the sun.

Proverbs 17:6

Old people are proud of their grandchildren, and children are proud of their parents.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But those who have never been born are better off still; they have not seen the evil that is done here on earth.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

A baby born dead is useless. It returns to darkness without even a name.

Jeremiah 22:19

They will bury him like a donkey, dragging his body away and throwing it outside the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 36:30

So this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: Jehoiakim’s descendants will not sit on David’s throne. When Jehoiakim dies, his body will be thrown out on the ground. It will be left out in the heat of the day and in the cold frost of the night.

Jeremiah 8:2

The bones will be spread on the ground under the sun, moon, and stars that the people loved and served and went after and searched for and worshiped. No one will gather up the bones and bury them. So they will be like dung thrown on the ground.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man will die, just as the Scriptures say. But how terrible it will be for the person who hands the Son of Man over to be killed. It would be better for him if he had never been born.”