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.
General references
Bible References
Better
Ecclesiastes 6:3
A man might father a hundred children, and live for many years, so that the length of his life is long but if his life does not overflow with goodness, and he doesn't receive a proper burial, I maintain that stillborn children are better off than he is,
Job 3:10
"Because that night refused to shut the doors of my mother's womb; it failed to keep me from seeing this trouble.
Job 10:18
So why did you bring me out from the womb? I wish I had died, before anyone had seen me,
Jeremiah 20:17
because he didn't kill me in the womb, so that my mother would have been my grave and her womb forever pregnant.
Matthew 24:19
"How terrible it will be for women who are pregnant or who are nursing babies in those days!
Luke 23:29
because the time is surely coming when people will say, "How blessed are the women who couldn't bear children and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!'
Who
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I observed every activity done on earth. My conclusion: all of it is pointless like chasing after the wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because whatever is done on earth causes me trouble it's all pointless, like chasing after the wind.
Psalm 55:6
I said, "O, who will give me the wings of a dove, so that I could fly away and live somewhere else?
Jeremiah 9:2
Oh, that I had a lodging place for travelers in the desert, so that I could leave my people and go away from them. For all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.
General references
Ecclesiastes 6:11
Because many words lead to pointlessness, how do people benefit from this? 12Who knows what is best for people in this life, every day of their pointless lives that they pass through like a shadow? Who informs people on earth what will come along after them?