Verse 3
yea, better{H2896} than them both{H8147} [did I esteem] him that hath not yet{H5728} been, who hath not seen{H7200} the evil{H7451} work{H4639} that is done{H6213} under the sun.{H8121}
Referenced Verses
- Luke 23:29 : 29 For{G3754} behold,{G2400} the days{G2250} are coming,{G2064} in{G1722} which{G3739} they shall say,{G2046} Blessed{G3107} are the barren,{G4723} and{G2532} the wombs{G2836} that{G3739} never{G3756} bare,{G1080} and{G2532} the breasts{G3149} that{G3739} never{G3756} gave suck.{G2337}
- Job 3:10-16 : 10 Because it shut not up{H5462} the doors{H1817} of my [mother's] womb,{H990} Nor hid{H5641} trouble{H5999} from mine eyes.{H5869} 11 Why died{H4191} I not from the womb?{H7358} Why did I not give up the ghost{H1478} when my mother{H990} bare{H3318} me? 12 Why did the knees{H1290} receive{H6923} me? Or why the breast,{H7699} that I should suck?{H3243} 13 For now should I have lain down{H7901} and been quiet;{H8252} I should have slept;{H3462} then had I been at rest,{H5117} 14 With kings{H4428} and counsellors{H3289} of the earth,{H776} Who built{H1129} up waste places{H2723} for themselves; 15 Or with princes{H8269} that had gold,{H2091} Who filled{H4390} their houses{H1004} with silver:{H3701} 16 Or as a hidden{H2934} untimely birth{H5309} I had not been, As infants{H5768} that never saw{H7200} light.{H216}
- Job 3:22 : 22 Who rejoice{H8056} exceedingly,{H1524} And are glad,{H7797} when they can find{H4672} the grave?{H6913}
- Job 10:18-19 : 18 Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth{H3318} out of the womb?{H7358} I had given up the ghost,{H1478} and no eye{H5869} had seen{H7200} me. 19 I should have been as though I had not been; I should have been carried{H2986} from the womb{H990} to the grave.{H6913}
- Ps 55:6-9 : 6 And I said,{H559} Oh that{H5414} I had wings{H83} like a dove!{H3123} Then would I fly away,{H5774} and be at rest.{H7931} 7 Lo, then would I wander{H5074} far off,{H7368} I would lodge{H3885} in the wilderness.{H4057} {H5542} 8 I would haste{H2363} me to a shelter{H4655} From the stormy{H5584} wind{H7307} and tempest.{H5591} 9 Destroy,{H1104} O Lord,{H136} [and] divide{H6385} their tongue;{H3956} For I have seen{H7200} violence{H2555} and strife{H7379} in the city.{H5892} 10 Day{H3119} and night{H3915} they go about{H5437} it upon the walls{H2346} thereof: Iniquity{H205} also and mischief{H205} are in the midst{H7130} of it. 11 Wickedness{H1942} is in the midst{H7130} thereof: Oppression{H8496} and guile{H4820} depart{H4185} not from its streets.{H7339}
- Eccl 1:14 : 14 I have seen{H7200} all the works{H4639} that are done{H6213} under the sun;{H8121} and, behold, all is vanity{H1892} and a striving{H7469} after wind.{H7307}
- Eccl 2:17 : 17 So I hated{H8130} life,{H2416} because the work{H4639} that is wrought{H6213} under the sun{H8121} was grievous{H7451} unto me; for all is vanity{H1892} and a striving{H7469} after wind.{H7307}
- Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 If a man{H376} beget{H3205} a hundred{H3967} children, and live{H2421} many{H7227} years,{H8141} so that the days{H3117} of his years{H8141} are many,{H7227} but his soul{H5315} be not filled{H7646} with good,{H2896} and moreover he have no burial;{H6900} I say,{H559} that an untimely birth{H5309} is better{H2896} than he: 4 for it cometh{H935} in vanity,{H1892} and departeth{H3212} in darkness,{H2822} and the name{H8034} thereof is covered{H3680} with darkness;{H2822} 5 moreover it hath not seen{H7200} the sun{H8121} nor known{H3045} it; this{H2088} hath rest{H5183} rather than{H2088} the other:
- Jer 9:2-3 : 2 Oh that{H5414} I had in the wilderness{H4057} a lodging-place{H4411} of wayfaring men;{H732} that I might leave{H5800} my people,{H5971} and go{H3212} from them! for they are all adulterers,{H5003} an assembly{H6116} of treacherous men.{H898} 3 And they bend{H1869} their tongue,{H3956} [as it were] their bow,{H7198} for falsehood;{H8267} and they are grown strong{H1396} in the land,{H776} but not for truth:{H530} for they proceed{H3318} from evil{H7451} to evil,{H7451} and they know{H3045} not me, saith{H5002} Jehovah.{H3068}
- Jer 20:17-18 : 17 because he slew{H4191} me not from the womb;{H7358} and so my mother{H517} would have been my grave,{H6913} and her womb{H7358} always{H5769} great.{H2030} 18 Wherefore came I forth{H3318} out of the womb{H7358} to see{H7200} labor{H5999} and sorrow,{H3015} that my days{H3117} should be consumed{H3615} with shame?{H1322}
- Matt 24:19 : 19 But{G1161} woe{G3759} unto them that are{G2192} with{G1722} child{G1064} and{G2532} to them that give suck{G2337} in{G1722} those{G1565} days!{G2250}