Ecclesiastes 6:3

Wycliffe's Bible with Modern Spelling

If a man engendereth an hundred free sons, and hath many days of age, and his soul useth not the goods of his chattel [or substance], and wanteth burying; I pronounce of this man, that a dead-born child is better than he.

Cross References

Genesis 33:5

And when Esau’s eyes were raised up, he saw the women, and the little children of them, and said, What will these mean to themselves? and whether they pertain to thee? Jacob answered, They be the little children, which God hath given to me, thy servant.

Genesis 47:9

And he answered, The days of [the] pilgrimage of my life be few and evil, of an hundred and thirty years, and those [or they] have not come to the days of my fathers, in which they were pilgrims.

2 Kings 10:1

Forsooth seventy sons in Samaria were to Ahab. Therefore Jehu wrote letters, and sent into Samaria to the best men of the city, and to the greater men in birth, and to all the nurses of the sons of Ahab, and said,

2 Kings 9:35

And when they had gone to bury her, they found not of her, no but the skull, and the feet, and the ends of her hands;

1 Chronicles 28:5

But also of my sons, for the Lord hath given to me many sons, he hath chosen Solomon, my son, that he should sit in the throne of the realm of the Lord on Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:21

And Rehoboam loved Maachah, the daughter of Absalom, above all his wives and his secondary wives. And he had wedded eighteen wives, and he had sixty secondary wives; and he begat eight and twenty sons, and sixty daughters.

Esther 5:11

and he told to them the greatness of his riches, and the company of his children, and with how great glory the king had enhanced him above all his princes and servants.

Esther 7:10

Therefore Haman was hanged in the gibbet, which he had made ready to Mordecai, and the ire of the king rested.

Job 3:11

Why was not I dead in the womb? why went I out of the womb, and perished not anon?

Job 3:16

either as a child, or a beast, born before the time, and hid, I should not have been; either as they that be conceived, and saw not light.

Psalm 58:8

As wax that floateth [or floweth] away, they shall be taken away; fire fell above, and they saw not the sun.

Proverbs 17:6

The crown of eld [or old] men is the sons of sons; and the glory of sons is the fathers of them.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

and I deemed him, that was not born yet, and saw not the evils that be done under the sun, to be more blessed than ever either.

Ecclesiastes 6:4

For he cometh in vain, and goeth to darknesses; and his name shall be done away by forgetting.

Jeremiah 22:19

He shall be buried with the burying of an ass, he shall be rotten, and cast forth without the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore the Lord saith these things against Jehoiakim, king of Judah, None there shall be of him, that shall sit on the seat of David; and his carrion shall be cast forth to the heat by day, and to the frost by night.

Jeremiah 8:2

and they shall lay abroad those bones to the sun, and [the] moon, and to all the knighthood of heaven, which they loved, and which they served, and after which they went, and which they sought, and worshipped; they shall not be gathered, and shall not be buried; they shall be into a dunghill on the face of [the] earth.

Matthew 26:24

Forsooth man’s Son goeth, as it is written of him; but woe to that man, by whom man’s Son shall be betrayed; it were good to him, if that man had not been born.