Ecclesiastes 6:3

Bishops' Bible (1568)

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.

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  • Job 3:16 : 16 Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?
  • Eccl 4:3 : 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.
  • Jer 22:19 : 19 But as an asse shall he be buried, corrupt, and be cast without the gates of Hierusalem.
  • 2 Kgs 9:35 : 35 And so when they came to burie her, they founde no more of her then the skull, and the feete, and the palmes of her handes.
  • Isa 14:19-20 : 19 And thou art cast out of thy graue like a fylthy abhominable braunche, like as dead mens rayment that are shot thorowe with the sworde, and go downe to the stones of the deepe, as a dead coarse that is troden vnder feete. 20 Thou art not buried with them: euen because that thou hast wasted thy lande & destroyed thy people: The generation of the wicked shalbe out of memorie for euer.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 Iacob sayd vnto Pharao, The dayes of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirtie yeres: Fewe and euill haue the dayes of my life ben, and haue not attayned vnto the yeres of ye lyfe of my fathers, in the dayes of theyr pilgrimage.
  • 1 Sam 2:20-21 : 20 And Eli blessed Elkana and his wife, and said: The Lorde geue thee seede of this woman, for the petition that she asked of the Lord. And they went vnto their owne home. 21 And the Lorde visited Hanna, so that she conceaued, and bare three sonnes, & two daughters: And the childe Samuel grew before the Lorde.
  • Eccl 5:17-19 : 17 All the dayes of his lyfe also he dyd eate in the darke, with great carefulnesse, sicknesse, and sorowe. 18 Therfore me thinke it a better and a fayrer thyng, a man to eate and drynke, and to be refresshed of all his labour that he taketh vnder the sunne, all the dayes of his lyfe which God geueth him: for this is his portion. 19 For vnto whom soeuer God geueth riches, goodes, and power, he geueth it him to enioy it, to take it for his portion, and to be refresshed of his labour: this is the gyft of God.
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 And layde against the sunne, the moone, & all the heauenly hoast, whom they loued, whom they serued, whom they ranne after, whom they sought and worshipped: they shall neither be gathered together nor buried, but shall lye as dunge vpon the earth.
  • Jer 36:30 : 30 Therefore thus the Lorde saith of Iehoakim the kyng of Iuda: There shall none of his generation sit vpon the throne of Dauid, his dead coarse shalbe cast out, that the heate of the day and the frost of the night may come vppon hym.
  • Matt 26:24 : 24 The sonne of man truely goeth, as it is writte of him: but wo vnto that man by whom the sonne of man is betrayed: It had ben good for that man, yf he had not ben borne.
  • 2 Kgs 10:1 : 1 Ahab had threescore & ten sonnes in Samaria: And Iehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, vnto the rulers of Iezrahel, to the elders, and to them that brought vp Ahabs children, saying:
  • 1 Chr 28:5 : 5 And of all my sonnes (for the Lorde hath geuen me many sonnes) he hath chosen Solomon my sonne, to sit vpon the seate of the kingdome of the Lorde in Israel.
  • 2 Chr 11:21 : 21 And Rehoboam loued Maacha the daughter of Absolo aboue al his wyues and concubines: for he toke eyghteene wyues and threescore concubines, and begat twentie and eyght sonnes & threescore daughters.
  • Esth 5:11 : 11 And Haman tolde them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all the thinges wherein the king had promoted him so greatly, and how that he had set him aboue the princes and seruauntes of the king.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the galous that he had made for Mardocheus: Then was the kinges wrath pacified.
  • Esth 9:14-15 : 14 And the king charged to do so: and the decree was deuised at Susan, and they hanged Hamans ten sonnes. 15 For the Iewes that were in Susan gathered them selues together, vpon the fourteenth day of the moneth Adar, and slue three hundred men at Susan: but on their goodes they layed no handes.
  • Ps 58:8 : 8 Let them creepe away lyke a snayle that foorthwith consumeth to naught: or lyke the vntimely fruite of a woman, let them not see the sunne.
  • Ps 127:4-5 : 4 Like as arrowes be in the hande of the strong: euen so are the chyldren of youth. 5 Happy is the man that hath filled his quiuer with them: they shall not be ashamed when they speake with their enemies in the gate.
  • Prov 17:6 : 6 Childers children are a crowne of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.
  • Gen 33:5 : 5 And he lyft vp his eyes, and sawe the women & the children, and said: whence hast thou these? And he aunswered: they are the children which god hath geuen thy seruaunt.

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  • Eccl 6:4-12
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    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.

    6 Yea, though he lyued two thousande yeres, yet hath he no good lyfe: Come not all to one place?

    7 All the labour that a man taketh, is for him selfe, and yet his desire is neuer fylled after his mynde.

    8 For what hath the wise more then the foole? What helpeth it the poore that he knoweth to walke with fooles before the lyuyng?

    9 The cleare sight of the eye, is better then that the soule shoulde walke after desires of the lust: Howbeit, this is also a vayne thyng, and a disquietnesse of mynde.

    10 The thyng that hath ben, is named alredy, and knowen that it is euen man him selfe: neither may he go to lawe with him that is mightier then he.

    11 Many thinges there be that encrease vanitie, and what hath a man els?

    12 For who knoweth what is good for man liuing in the dayes of his vayne life, whiche is but a shadowe? Or who wyl tell a man what shall happen after hym vnder the sunne?

  • Eccl 4:2-3
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    2 Wherfore I iudged those that are dead, to be more happy then those that be alyue?

    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.

  • Eccl 6:1-2
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    1 There is yet a plague vnder the sunne, and it is a generall thyng among men:

    2 when God geueth a man riches, goodes, and honour, so that he wanteth nothyng of all that his heart can desire, and yet God geueth him not leaue to enioy the same, but another man spendeth them: This is a vayne thyng and a miserable plague.

  • Eccl 5:14-17
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    14 For oft tymes they perishe with his great miserie and trouble: and yf he haue a chylde, it getteth nothyng.

    15 Lyke as he came naked out of his mothers wombe, so goeth he thyther agayne, and caryeth nothyng away with him of all his labour.

    16 This is a miserable plague, that he shall go euen as he came away: What helpeth it him then that he hath laboured in the wynde?

    17 All the dayes of his lyfe also he dyd eate in the darke, with great carefulnesse, sicknesse, and sorowe.

  • Eccl 11:8
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    8 If a man lyue many yeres, and be glad in them all, let hym remember the dayes of darknesse whiche shalbe manye, and that foloweth: Al thinges shalbe but vanitie.

  • Eccl 4:8
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    8 There is one man, no mo but himselfe alone, hauing neither childe nor brother, yet is there no ende of his carefull trauayle, his eyes can not be satisfied with riches: yet saith he not for whom do I take such trauayle? For whose pleasure do I thus consume away my life? This is also a vayne and miserable thyng.

  • Eccl 4:15-16
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    15 And I perceaued that all men lyuyng vnder the sunne, go with the seconde childe that shall stande vp in the steade of the other.

    16 As for the people that haue ben before him, and that come after him, they are innumerable, and they that come after him shall not reioyce in him: This is also a vayne thyng, and vexation of mynde.

  • Eccl 3:22
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    22 Wherfore I perceaue that there is nothyng better for a man then to be ioyfull in his labour, for that is his portion: But who wyll bryng hym to see the thyng that shall come after hym?

  • Eccl 1:3
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    3 For what els hath a man of all the labour that he taketh vnder the sunne?

  • Job 27:14-15
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    14 If he get many children, they shall perishe with the sworde, and his posteritie shall haue scarcenesse of bread.

    15 His remnaunt shalbe buried in death, and his widowes shall not weepe.

  • Eccl 9:3
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    3 Among all thinges that come to passe vnder the sunne, this is a miserie, that it happeneth vnto all alike: This is the cause also that the heartes of men are full of wickednesse, and madde foolishnesse is in their heartes as long as they liue, vntyll they dye.

  • Eccl 2:21-26
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    21 Forsomuch as a man shoulde weery hym selfe with wisdome, with vnderstandyng and oportunitie, and yet be fayne to leaue his labours vnto another that neuer sweat for them: This is also a vayne thyng, and great miserie.

    22 For what getteth a man of all the labour and trauayle of his mynde that he taketh vnder the sunne?

    23 But heauinesse, sorowe, and disquietnesse all the dayes of his life? Insomuch that his heart can not rest in the nyght: This is also a vayne thyng.

    24 Is it not better then for a man to eate and drynke, and his soule to be mery in his labour? yea I sawe that this also was a gift of God.

    25 For who wyll eate or go more lustyly to his worke then I?

    26 And why? God geueth to the man that is good before hym, wisdome, vnderstandyng, and gladnesse: but vnto the sinner he geueth weerinesse, that he may gather and heape together the thyng that afterwarde shalbe geuen vnto hym whom it pleaseth God: This is nowe a vayne thyng, yea a very disquietnesse and vexation of mynde.

  • Job 3:21
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    21 Whiche long for death and finde it not, though they search more for it than for treasures:

  • Job 21:21
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    21 For what careth he for his house after his death, when the number of his monethes is cut short?

  • Job 14:1
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    1 Man that is borne of woman, hath but a short time to lyue, and is full of miserie.

  • Eccl 7:1-2
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    1 A good name is more worth then precious oyntment: & the day of death, is better the the day of byrth.

    2 It is better to go into an house of mourning, then into a banketting house: For there is the ende of all men, and he that is liuing taketh it to heart.

  • Eccl 3:19
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    19 For it happeneth vnto men as it doth vnto beastes, euen one condition vnto them both: as the one dyeth so dyeth the other, yea they haue both one maner of breath: so that in this a man hath no preeminence aboue a beast, but are all subdued vnto vanitie.

  • Job 3:3
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    3 Let the day perishe wherin I was borne, and the night in the whiche it was sayd, There is a man childe conceaued.

  • Eccl 4:13
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    13 A poore chylde beyng wise, is better then an olde kyng that doteth, and can not beware in tyme to come.

  • Job 3:16
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    16 Or why was not I hyd, as a thing borne out of tune, either as young children which neuer sawe the light?

  • Eccl 8:15
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    15 Therfore I commende gladnesse, because a man hath no better thing vnder the sunne, then to eate and drinke, and to be merie: for that shall he haue of his labour, al the dayes of his life which God geueth hym vnder the sunne.

  • Job 21:25
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    25 Another dyeth in the bitternes of his soule, and neuer eateth with pleasure.

  • Eccl 3:12
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    12 So I perceaued that in those thinges there is nothyng better for a man then to be mery, and to do well as long as he lyueth.

  • Eccl 5:20
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    20 For he thinketh not much howe long he shall lyue, forasmuch as God fylleth his heart with gladnesse.

  • Eccl 4:6
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    6 One handfull saith he is better with rest, then both the handes full with labour and trauayle of mynde.

  • Prov 30:16
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    16 The graue, the barren wombe, and the earth that hath neuer water enough: as for fire it sayth neuer hoe.

  • Eccl 2:19
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    19 And who knoweth whether he shalbe a wise man or a foole? And yet shall he be lorde of all my laboures which I with such wisdome haue taken vnder the sunne: This is also a vayne thyng.

  • Eccl 2:17
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    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 9:9
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    9 Use thy selfe to liue ioyfully with thy wife whom thou louest all the dayes of thy life whiche is but vayne, that God geueth thee vnder the sunne all the dayes of thy vanitie: for that is thy portion in this life of al thy labour and trauayle that thou takest vnder the sunne.