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 beget a hundred sons, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.
Job 3:10
Because it shut not up the doors of the womb that bore me, and hid not trouble from mine eyes.
Job 10:18
And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, and no eye had seen me.
Jeremiah 20:17
because he slew me not from the womb. Or would that my mother had been my grave, and her womb always great with me!
Matthew 24:19
But woe to those that are with child, and those that give suck in those days.
Luke 23:29
for behold, days are coming in which they will say, Blessed are the barren, and wombs that have not borne, and breasts that have not given suck.

Who

Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
And I hated life; for the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me; for all is vanity and pursuit of the wind.
Psalm 55:6
And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away, and be at rest;
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.

General references

Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many things that increase vanity: what is man advantaged?