Verse 3
And I count him better then them both, which hath not yet bin: for he hath not seene the euill workes which are wrought vnder the sunne.
Referenced Verses
- Luke 23:29 : 29 For behold, the dayes wil come, when men shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombes that neuer bare, and the pappes which neuer gaue sucke.
- Job 3:10-16 : 10 Because it shut not vp the dores of my mothers wombe: nor hid sorowe from mine eyes. 11 Why died I not in the birth? or why dyed I not, when I came out of the wombe? 12 Why did the knees preuent me? and why did I sucke the breasts? 13 For so shoulde I now haue lyen and bene quiet, I should haue slept then, and bene at rest, 14 With the Kings & counselers of the earth, which haue buylded themselues desolate places: 15 Or with the princes that had golde, and haue filled their houses with siluer. 16 Or why was I not hid, as an vntimely birth, either as infants, which haue not seene the light?
- Job 3:22 : 22 Which ioy for gladnes, and reioyce, when they can finde the graue.
- Job 10:18-19 : 18 Wherfore then hast thou brought me out of the wombe? Oh that I had perished, and that none eye had seene me! 19 And that I were as I had not bene, but brought from the wombe to the graue!
- Ps 55:6-9 : 6 And I said, Oh that I had wings like a doue: then would I flie away and rest. 7 Beholde, I woulde take my flight farre off, and lodge in the wildernes. Selah. 8 Hee would make haste for my deliuerance from the stormie winde and tempest. 9 Destroy, O Lord, and deuide their tongues: for I haue seene crueltie and strife in the citie. 10 Day and night they goe about it vpon the walles thereof: both iniquitie and mischiefe are in the middes of it. 11 Wickednes is in the middes thereof: deceit and guile depart not from her streetes.
- Eccl 1:14 : 14 I haue considered all the workes that are done vnder the sunne, and beholde, all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
- Eccl 2:17 : 17 Therefore I hated life: for the worke that is wrought vnder the sunne is grieuous vnto me: for all is vanitie, and vexation of the spirit.
- Eccl 6:3-5 : 3 If a man beget an hundreth children and liue many yeeres, and the dayes of his yeeres be multiplied, & his soule be not satisfied with good things, and he be not buried, I say that an vntimely fruite is better then he. 4 For he commeth into vanitie and goeth into darkenesse: and his name shall be couered with darkenesse. 5 Also he hath not seene ye sunne, nor knowen it: therefore this hath more rest then the other.
- Jer 9:2-3 : 2 Oh, that I had in the wildernes a cottage of wayfaring men, that I might leaue my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers & an assembly of rebels, 3 And they bende their tongues like their bowes for lyes: but they haue no courage for the trueth vpon the earth: for they proceede from euill to worse, and they haue not knowen mee, sayth the Lord.
- Jer 20:17-18 : 17 Because he hath not slaine me, euen from the wombe, or that my mother might haue bene my graue, or her wobe a perpetual conception. 18 How is it, that I came forth of the wombe, to see labour and sorowe, that my dayes shoulde be consumed with shame?
- Matt 24:19 : 19 And woe shalbe to them that are with childe, and to them that giue sucke in those dayes.