Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Summary
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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Bible References
Better
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,
Job 3:10 Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.
Or hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 10:18 ‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!
Jeremiah 20:17 Because he did not kill me before birth,
So that my mother would have been my grave,
And her womb ever pregnant.
So that my mother would have been my grave,
And her womb ever pregnant.
Matthew 24:19 But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!
Luke 23:29 For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’
Who
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.
Psalm 55:6 I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away andbe at rest.
I would fly away and
Jeremiah 9:2 Oh that I had in the desert
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them areadulterers,
An assembly oftreacherous men.
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are
An assembly of
General references
Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many words which increase futility. What then is the advantage to a man?