Ecclesiastes 4:3

New International Version

But better than both is the one who has never been born, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

Cross References

Job 3:22

who are filled with gladness and rejoice when they reach the grave?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun; all of them are meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. All of it is meaningless, a chasing after the wind.

Matthew 24:19

How dreadful it will be in those days for pregnant women and nursing mothers!

Luke 23:29

For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’