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 doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, 'Better than he is the untimely birth.'
Job 3:10
Because it hath not shut the doors Of the womb that was mine! And hide misery from mine eyes.
Job 10:18
And why from the womb Hast Thou brought me forth? I expire, and the eye doth not see me.
Jeremiah 20:17
Because he hath not put me to death from the womb, And my mother is to me -- my grave, And her womb a pregnancy age-during.
Matthew 24:19
'And woe to those with child, and to those giving suck in those days;
Luke 23:29
for, lo, days do come, in which they shall say, Happy the barren, and wombs that did not bare, and paps that did not give suck;
Who
Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and lo, the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit!
Ecclesiastes 2:17
And I have hated life, for sad to me is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Psalm 55:6
And I say, 'Who doth give to me a pinion as a dove? I fly away and rest,
Jeremiah 9:2
Who doth give me in a wilderness A lodging-place of travellers? And I leave my people, and go from them, For all of them are adulterers, An assembly of treacherous ones.
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Ecclesiastes 6:11
For there are many things multiplying vanity; what advantage is to man?