Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better than either of them is the one who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.

Luke 23:29

Look, the days are coming when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’

Job 3:10-16

For that night did not shut
the doors of my mother’s womb,
and hide sorrow from my eyes.

Job 3:22

who are filled with much joy
and are glad when they reach the grave?

Job 10:18-19

“Why did You bring me out of the womb?
I should have died and never been seen.

Psalm 55:6-11

I said, “If only I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and find rest.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the things that are done under the sun and have found everything to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

Therefore, I hated life because the work that was done under the sun was distressing to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Jeremiah 9:2-3

If only I had a traveler’s lodging place
in the wilderness,
I would abandon my people
and depart from them,
for they are all adulterers,
a solemn assembly of treacherous people.

Jeremiah 20:17-18

because he didn’t kill me in the womb
so that my mother might have been my grave,
her womb eternally pregnant.

Matthew 24:19

Woe to pregnant women and nursing mothers in those days!

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Summary

Ecclesiastes 4:3

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.

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General references

Ecclesiastes 6:11

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