Ecclesiastes 6:3

The Scriptures 2009

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-place, 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 Ya‛aqoḇ said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojournings are one hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not reached the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojournings.”

2 Kings 10:1

And Aḥaḇ had seventy sons in Shomeron. And Yĕhu wrote letters and sent to Shomeron, to the rulers of Yizre‛ĕl, to the elders, and to the guardians of Aḥaḇ, saying,

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’ĕl,

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Reḥaḇ‛am loved Ma‛aḵah the granddaughter of Aḇshalom more than all his wives and his concubines. For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and brought forth twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

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 hanged Haman on the wooden structure that he had prepared for Mordeḵai, and the sovereign’s wrath abated.

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 – the burial-place of a donkey – dragged and thrown outside the gates of Yerushalayim.

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore thus said יהוה concerning Yehoyaqim sovereign of Yehuḏah, “He shall have no one to sit on the throne of Dawiḏ, and his dead body is to be thrown out, to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

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 Aḏam goes as it has been written concerning Him, but woe to that man by whom the Son of Aḏam is delivered up! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.