Ecclesiastes 6:3

Tree of Life Version

Even if a man should father a hundred children and live many years, however many the days of his years may be, yet his soul is never satisfied with his prosperity and he does not have a proper burial, then I say that it is better for the stillborn than him.

Cross References

Genesis 33:5

His eyes glanced up and he saw the women and the children, and said, “Who are these with you?” “The children whom God has graciously given your servant,” he said.

Genesis 47:9

Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourn are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life. Moreover, the days of the years of my life have not attained the days of the years of the lives of my fathers, in the days of their sojourn.”

2 Kings 10:1

Now Ahab had 70 sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of Ahab’s sons, saying:

2 Kings 9:35

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

1 Chronicles 28:5

Moreover, of all my sons—for Adonai has given me many sons—He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Adonai over Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Now Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines—for he took 18 wives and 60 concubines and fathered 28 sons and 60 daughters.

Esther 5:11

Haman boasted to them about his vast wealth, his many sons, and how the king had promoted him and exalted him above the other 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 rage subsided.

Job 3:11

Why did I not die at birth and expire as I exited the womb?

Job 3:16

Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn, like infants who never saw light?

Psalm 58:8

Let them flow away like water that runs off. When he bends his bow, let the arrows be cut off.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the elderly and the glory of children is their parents.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yet better than both is one who has not yet been, who has never seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

Even though it comes in futility and departs into darkness, though its name is shrouded in darkness,

Jeremiah 22:19

With a donkey’s burial will he be buried, dragged off and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore thus says Adonai about King Jehoiakim of Judah: “He will have no one to sit on the throne of David. Moreover, his dead body will be tossed out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

Jeremiah 8:2

They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, and after which they have walked and sought, and which they have worshipped. They will not be gathered or buried, but will be like dung on the face of the ground.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man indeed goes, just as it is written about Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for that man if he had not been born!”