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
A man can have a hundred children and live many years. If he does not enjoy prosperity and have a decent burial, a stillborn child is better off then he.
Job 3:10
for it did not shut the doors of the womb on me to hide trouble from my eyes.
Job 10:18
Why then did you bring me out of the womb? I wish I had died before anyone saw me.
Jeremiah 20:17
He did not kill me before birth, so that my mother would have been my grave, and her womb ever pregnant.
Matthew 24:19
You who are pregnant or nursing babies in those days will feel trouble.
Luke 23:29
The days are coming when they will say blessed are the barren those without children and the breasts that never nursed.
Who
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that are done under the sun. Behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 2:17
I hated life. Everything under the sun was evil to me. All is vanity and grasping for the wind.
Psalm 55:6
I said: If only I had wings like a dove. I would fly away and find rest.
Jeremiah 9:2
I wish I had a dwelling in the desert. I would abandon my people and go away from them. They are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
General references
Ecclesiastes 6:11
Seeing there is much that increases futility, what outcome is there for man?