Ecclesiastes 6:3

New International Version

A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Cross References

Genesis 33:5

Then Esau looked up and saw the women and children. “Who are these with you?” he asked. Jacob answered, “They are the children God has graciously given your servant.”

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty. My years have been few and difficult, and they do not equal the years of the pilgrimage of my fathers.”

2 Kings 10:1

Now there were in Samaria seventy sons of the house of Ahab. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria: to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders and to the guardians of Ahab’s children. He said,

2 Kings 9:35

But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing except her skull, her feet and her hands.

1 Chronicles 28:5

Of all my sons—and the Lord has given me many—he has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rehoboam loved Maakah daughter of Absalom more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Esther 5:11

Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored him and how he had elevated him above the other nobles and officials.

Esther 7:10

So they impaled Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai. Then the king’s fury subsided.

Job 3:11

“Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb?

Job 3:16

Or why was I not hidden away in the ground like a stillborn child, like an infant who never saw the light of day?

Psalm 58:8

May they be like a slug that melts away as it moves along, like a stillborn child that never sees the sun.

Proverbs 17:6

Children’s children are a crown to the aged, and parents are the pride of their children.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

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

Ecclesiastes 6:4

It comes without meaning, it departs in darkness, and in darkness its name is shrouded.

Jeremiah 22:19

He will have the burial of a donkey— dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.”

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore this is what the Lord says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on the throne of David; his body will be thrown out and exposed to the heat by day and the frost by night.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will be exposed to the sun and the moon and all the stars of the heavens, which they have loved and served and which they have followed and consulted and worshiped. They will not be gathered up or buried, but will be like dung lying on the ground.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man will go just as it is written about him. But woe to that man who betrays the Son of Man! It would be better for him if he had not been born.”