Ecclesiastes 6:3

The Vanity of Wealth and Honor

3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with goodness, or d indeed he has no burial, I say that e a 1 stillborn child is better than he -

  1. Cross References
    2 Kings 9:35
    So they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
    Isaiah 14:19
    But you are cast out of your grave Like an abominable branch, Like the garment of those who are slain, Thrust through with a sword, Who go down to the stones of the pit, Like a corpse trodden underfoot.
    Isaiah 14:20
    You will not be joined with them in burial, Because you have destroyed your land And slain your people. The brood of evildoers shall never be named.
    Jeremiah 22:19
    He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, Dragged and cast out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
  2. Cross References
    Job 3:16
    Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, Like infants who never saw light?
    Psalms 58:8
    Let them be like a snail which melts away as it goes, Like a stillborn child of a woman, that they may not see the sun.
    Ecclesiastes 4:3
    Yet, better than both is he who has never existed, Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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