Verse 3
Yea him that is yet vnborne, to be better at ease then they both: because he seeth not the miserable workes that are done vnder the sunne.
Referenced Verses
- Luke 23:29 : 29 For beholde, the dayes wyll come, in the which they shal say: Happy are the barren, & the wombes that neuer bare, & the pappes which neuer gaue sucke.
- Job 3:10-16 : 10 Because it shut not vp the doores of my mothers wombe, nor hyd sorowe from myne eyes. 11 Alas why died I not in the birth? why dyd not I perishe assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? 12 Why set they me vpon their knees? why gaue they me sucke with their brestes? 13 Then should I nowe haue lyen stil, I shoulde haue slept, and ben at rest, 14 Lyke as the kinges and lordes of the earth, which haue buylded them selues speciall places, 15 Or as the princes that haue had golde, and their houses full of siluer: 16 Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?
- Job 3:22 : 22 Which reioyce exceedingly, and be glad when they can finde the graue,
- Job 10:18-19 : 18 Wherfore hast thou brought me out of the wombe? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seene me, 19 And that I were as though I had not ben, but brought from the wombe to the graue.
- Ps 55:6-9 : 6 And I sayde, O that I had wynges like a doue: for then woulde I flee away, and be at rest. 7 Lo, then woulde I fleeing get me away farre of: and remayne in the wyldernesse. Selah. 8 Then woulde I make hast to escape: from the stormie wynde, and from the tempest. 9 Destroy their tongues O Lorde, and deuide them: for I haue seene oppression and strife in the citie. 10 They do compasse it day and night within the walles: mischiefe also and labour, are in the midst of it. 11 Malice is in the midst of it: disceipt and guyle go not out of her streates.
- Eccl 1:14 : 14 Thus haue I considered all these thynges that come to passe vnder the sunne: and lo, they are all but vanitie and vexation of mynde.
- Eccl 2:17 : 17 Thus began I to be weery of my life, insomuch that I coulde away with nothyng that is done vnder the sunne: for all was but vanitie and vexation of mynde.
- Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 If a man beget a hundred children, and lyue many yeres, so that his dayes are many in number, and yet can not enioy his good, neither be buryed: as for him I say, that vntymely birth is better then he. 4 For he commeth to naught, & spendeth his tyme in darknesse, and his name is forgotten. 5 Moreouer he seeth not the sunne, and knoweth not of it: and yet hath he more rest then the other.
- Jer 9:2-3 : 2 Woulde God that I had a cottage somewhere farre from folke, that I might leaue my people and go from them, for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort. 3 They bend their tongues like vowes to shoote out lyes, they waxe strong vppon earth: As for the trueth, they may nothing away withall in the worlde, for they go from one wickednes to another, and wyll not knowe me, saith the Lorde.
- Jer 20:17-18 : 17 Why sluest thou not me assoone as I came out of my mothers wombe? or that my mother had ben my graue her selfe, that the byrth might not haue come out, but remayned still in her? 18 Wherefore came I foorth of my mothers wombe? to haue experience of labour and sorowe, and to leade my lyfe with shame?
- Matt 24:19 : 19 Wo shalbe in those dayes, to them that are with chylde, and to them that geue sucke.