Ecclesiastes 4:3

New English Translation

But better than both is the one who has not been born and has not seen the evil things that are done on earth.

Cross References

Job 3:22

who rejoice even to jubilation, and are exultant when they find the grave?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I reflected on everything that is accomplished by man on earth, and I concluded: Everything he has accomplished is futile – like chasing the wind!

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I loathed life because what happens on earth seems awful to me; for all the benefits of wisdom are futile – like chasing the wind.

Matthew 24:19

Woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing their babies in those days!

Luke 23:29

For this is certain: The days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, the wombs that never bore children, and the breasts that never nursed!’