Ecclesiastes 4:3

The Existence Of Oppression In The World Makes Human Existence Miserable

² So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living. ³ But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun. ⁴ I have seen that every labor and every skill which is done is the result of rivalry between a man and his neighbor. This too is vanity and striving after wind.

On Earth

Under the Sun

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.’

Job 3:10-16

Because it did not shut the opening of my mother’s womb,
Or hide trouble from my eyes.

Job 3:22

Who rejoice greatly,
And exult when they find the grave?

Job 10:18-19

‘Why then have You brought me out of the womb?
Would that I had died and no eye had seen me!

Psalm 55:6-11

I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove!
I would fly away and be at rest.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works which have been done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, for the work which had been done under the sun was grievous to me; because everything is futility and striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

Jeremiah 9:2-3

Oh that I had in the desert
A wayfarers’ lodging place;
That I might leave my people
And go from them!
For all of them are adulterers,
An assembly of treacherous men.

Jeremiah 20:17-18

Because he did not kill me before birth,
So that my mother would have been my grave,
And her womb ever pregnant.

Matthew 24:19

But woe to those who are pregnant and to those who are nursing babies in those days!