Ecclesiastes 6:4

New Living Translation

His birth would have been meaningless, and he would have ended in darkness. He wouldn’t even have had a name,

Cross References

Psalm 109:13

May all his offspring die. May his family name be blotted out in the next generation.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

A man might have a hundred children and live to be very old. But if he finds no satisfaction in life and doesn’t even get a decent burial, it would have been better for him to be born dead.

Ecclesiastes 6:5

and he would never have seen the sun or known of its existence. Yet he would have had more peace than in growing up to be an unhappy man.