Ecclesiastes 6:3

New King James Version

If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he—

Cross References

Genesis 33:5

And he lifted his eyes and saw the women and children, and said, “Who are these with you?” So he 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; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”

2 Kings 10:1

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote and sent letters to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to those who reared Ahab’s sons, saying:

2 Kings 9:35

So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

1 Chronicles 28:5

And 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

Now Rehoboam loved Maachah the granddaughter of Absalom more than all his wives and his concubines; for he took eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and begot twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Esther 5:11

Then Haman told them of his great riches, the multitude of his children, everything in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the officials and servants of the king.

Esther 7:10

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the king’s wrath subsided.

Job 3:11

“Why did I not die at birth? Why did I not perish when I came from 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 which melts away as it goes, Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see 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

Yet, better than both is he who has never existed, Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

for it comes in vanity and departs in darkness, and its name is covered with darkness.

Jeremiah 22:19

He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, Dragged 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

They shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought and which they have worshiped. They shall not be gathered nor buried; they shall be like refuse on the face of the earth.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man indeed goes just 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.”