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 hundredth children, and live many years, so that his days are many in number, and yet cannot enjoy his good, neither be buried: as for him I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Job 3:10
because it shut not up the womb that bare me. For then should these sorrows have been hid from mine eyes.
Job 10:18
Wherefore hast thou brought me out of my mother's womb? O that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me.
Jeremiah 20:17
because he slew me not, as soon as I came out of my mother's womb, and because my mother was not my grave herself, that the birth might not have come out, but remained still in her.
Matthew 24:19
Woe shall be in those days to them that are with child, and to them that give suck.
Luke 23:29
For behold, the days will come, when men shall say, 'Happy are the barren and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.'
Who
Ecclesiastes 1:14
Thus I have considered all the things that come to pass under the Sun, and lo, they are all but vanity and vexation of mind.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
Thus began I to be weary of my life, in so much that I could away with nothing that is done under the Sun, for all was but vanity and vexation of mind:
Psalm 55:6
And I said, "O that I had wings like a dove! For then would I flee away, and be at rest.
Jeremiah 9:2
Would God that I had a cottage somewhere far from folk, that I might leave my people, and go from them: for they be all adulterers and a shrinking sort.
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Ecclesiastes 6:11
Many things there be that increase vanity, and what hath a man else?