Ecclesiastes 6:3

The Scriptures 1998

If a man brings forth a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his being is not satisfied with goodness, or indeed he has no burial, I say that a premature birth 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?” And he said, “The children with whom Elohim has favoured your servant.”

Genesis 47:9

And Yaʽ

2 Kings 10:1

And Aḥ

2 Kings 9:35

So they went to bury her, but all they found of her was the skull and the feet and the palms of the hands.

1 Chronicles 28:5

“And of all my sons – for יהוה  has given me many sons – He has chosen my son Shelomoh to sit on the throne of the reign of יהוה  over Yisra’ĕ

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Reḥ

Esther 5:11

And Haman recounted to them the esteem of his wealth, and his many sons, and all in which the sovereign had promoted him, and how he had exalted him above the officials and servants of the sovereign.

Esther 7:10

And they impaled Haman on the stake that he had prepared for Mordeḵ

Job 3:11

Why did I not die from the womb, come forth from the belly and expire?

Job 3:16

or as a hidden untimely birth, as infants who never saw light?

Psalm 58:8

Like a snail which melts away as it moves, Like a woman’s stillbirth, Let them not see the sun!

Proverbs 17:6

Children’s children are the crown of old men, And the adornment of children is their fathers.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

And 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 futility and goes away in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered;

Jeremiah 22:19

“He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, dragged and thrown outside the gates of Yerushalayim.

Jeremiah 36:30

‘Therefore thus said יהוה  concerning Yehoyaqim sovereign of Yehuḏ

Jeremiah 8:2

and shall spread them before the sun and the moon and all the host of the heavens, which they have loved and which they have served and after which they have walked, which they have sought, and to which they have bowed themselves. They shall not be gathered nor buried, they shall be for dung on the face of the earth.

Matthew 26:24

“Indeed, the Son of Aḏ