Ecclesiastes 6:3

Authorized King James Version (1611)

If a man beget an hundred [children], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also [that] he have no burial; I say, [that] an untimely birth [is] better than he.

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  • Job 3:16 : 16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.
  • Eccl 4:3 : 3 Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
  • Jer 22:19 : 19 He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
  • 2 Kgs 9:35 : 35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.
  • Isa 14:19-20 : 19 But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. 20 Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.
  • Gen 47:9 : 9 And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.
  • 1 Sam 2:20-21 : 20 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give thee seed of this woman for the loan which is lent to the LORD. And they went unto their own home. 21 And the LORD visited Hannah, so that she conceived, and bare three sons and two daughters. And the child Samuel grew before the LORD.
  • Eccl 5:17-19 : 17 All his days also he eateth in darkness, and [he hath] much sorrow and wrath with his sickness. 18 ¶ Behold [that] which I have seen: [it is] good and comely [for one] to eat and to drink, and to enjoy the good of all his labour that he taketh under the sun all the days of his life, which God giveth him: for it [is] his portion. 19 Every man also to whom God hath given riches and wealth, and hath given him power to eat thereof, and to take his portion, and to rejoice in his labour; this [is] the gift of God.
  • Jer 8:2 : 2 And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.
  • Jer 36:30 : 30 Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.
  • Matt 26:24 : 24 ‹The Son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe unto that man by whom the Son of man is betrayed! it had been good for that man if he had not been born.›
  • 2 Kgs 10:1 : 1 ¶ And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, unto the rulers of Jezreel, to the elders, and to them that brought up Ahab's [children], saying,
  • 1 Chr 28:5 : 5 And of all my sons, (for the LORD hath given me many sons,) he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.
  • 2 Chr 11:21 : 21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters.)
  • Esth 5:11 : 11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children, and all [the things] wherein the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.
  • Esth 7:10 : 10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.
  • Esth 9:14-15 : 14 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons. 15 For the Jews that [were] in Shushan gathered themselves together on the fourteenth day also of the month Adar, and slew three hundred men at Shushan; but on the prey they laid not their hand.
  • Ps 58:8 : 8 As a snail [which] melteth, let [every one of them] pass away: [like] the untimely birth of a woman, [that] they may not see the sun.
  • Ps 127:4-5 : 4 As arrows [are] in the hand of a mighty man; so [are] children of the youth. 5 Happy [is] the man that hath his quiver full of them: they shall not be ashamed, but they shall speak with the enemies in the gate.
  • Prov 17:6 : 6 ¶ Children's children [are] the crown of old men; and the glory of children [are] their fathers.
  • Gen 33:5 : 5 ¶ And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who [are] those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant.

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    4 For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

    5 Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known [any thing]: this hath more rest than the other.

    6 Yea, though he live a thousand years twice [told], yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

    7 ¶ All the labour of man [is] for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.

    8 For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?

    9 Better [is] the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.

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    1 ¶ There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it [is] common among men:

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    14 But those riches perish by evil travail: and he begetteth a son, and [there is] nothing in his hand.

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    15 I considered all the living which walk under the sun, with the second child that shall stand up in his stead.

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    21 For what pleasure [hath] he in his house after him, when the number of his months is cut off in the midst?

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