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 3:16

"Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like babies who never saw the light?

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Better than both of them is someone who has not yet been born, because he hasn't experienced evil on earth.

Jeremiah 22:19

He will receive a donkey's burial, dragged out and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem."

Genesis 47:9

"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."

2 Kings 9:35

But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing left of her except her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

Genesis 33:5

When Esau eventually looked around, he saw the women and the children. "Who are these people with you?" he asked.

1 Samuel 2:20-21

Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, "May the LORD give you descendants from this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD." Then they would return to their home.

2 Kings 10:1

Meanwhile, Ahab had 70 sons who lived in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the rulers of Jezreel, the elders, and the guardians of Ahab's children. He told them,

1 Chronicles 28:5

"Now out of all of my sons (since the LORD has given me many of them), he has selected my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD, ruling over Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:21

Rehoboam loved Absalom's daughter Maacah more than he did all of his wives and mistresses. (He married eighteen wives and 60 concubines, fathering 28 sons and 60 daughters.)

Esther 5:11

Then Haman told them about his splendid wealth, the number of his sons, all the ways the king had honored him, and that he had promoted him above all the other officials and ministers of the king.

Esther 7:10

The king said, "Hang him on it." So they hanged Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and then the king's anger subsided.

Esther 9:14-15

The king said, "Let this be done." So an edict was issued in Susa, and Haman's ten sons were hanged on poles.

Psalm 58:8

May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun.

Psalm 127:4-5

As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so also are children born during one's youth.

Proverbs 17:6

Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the pride of children is their parents.

Ecclesiastes 5:17-19

Furthermore, all his days he lives in darkness with great sorrow, anger, and affliction.

Isaiah 14:19-20

But you are cast away from your grave, like a repulsive branch, your clothing is the slain, those pierced by the sword; those who go down to the Pit. Like a dead body trampled underfoot,

Jeremiah 8:2

They'll be spread out to the sun, the moon, and all the stars of the heavens, which they loved and served, and which they followed, consulted, and worshipped. Their bones won't be collected, nor will they be buried. They'll be like dung on the surface of the ground.

Jeremiah 36:30

Therefore, this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim, king of Judah, "He will have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his corpse will be thrown out to rot during the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

Matthew 26:24

The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him. How terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

Treasury of Scripture Knowledge

Summary

If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

General references

Bible References

A man

Genesis 33:5
When Esau eventually looked around, he saw the women and the children. "Who are these people with you?" he asked.
1 Samuel 2:20
Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, "May the LORD give you descendants from this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD." Then they would return to their home.
2 Kings 10:1
Meanwhile, Ahab had 70 sons who lived in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the rulers of Jezreel, the elders, and the guardians of Ahab's children. He told them,
1 Chronicles 28:5
"Now out of all of my sons (since the LORD has given me many of them), he has selected my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD, ruling over Israel.
2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Absalom's daughter Maacah more than he did all of his wives and mistresses. (He married eighteen wives and 60 concubines, fathering 28 sons and 60 daughters.)
Esther 5:11
Then Haman told them about his splendid wealth, the number of his sons, all the ways the king had honored him, and that he had promoted him above all the other officials and ministers of the king.
Psalm 127:4
As arrows in the hand of a warrior, so also are children born during one's youth.
Proverbs 17:6
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the pride of children is their parents.

So

Ecclesiastes 5:17
Furthermore, all his days he lives in darkness with great sorrow, anger, and affliction.
Genesis 47:9
"I'm 130 years old," Jacob replied. "My years have turned out to be few and unpleasant, but I haven't yet reached the age my ancestors did during their travels on earth."

And also

2 Kings 9:35
But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing left of her except her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
Esther 7:10
The king said, "Hang him on it." So they hanged Haman on the pole he had set up for Mordecai, and then the king's anger subsided.
Esther 9:14
The king said, "Let this be done." So an edict was issued in Susa, and Haman's ten sons were hanged on poles.
Isaiah 14:19
But you are cast away from your grave, like a repulsive branch, your clothing is the slain, those pierced by the sword; those who go down to the Pit. Like a dead body trampled underfoot,
Jeremiah 22:19
He will receive a donkey's burial, dragged out and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem."
Jeremiah 36:30
Therefore, this is what the LORD says concerning Jehoiakim, king of Judah, "He will have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his corpse will be thrown out to rot during the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

That an

Ecclesiastes 4:3
Better than both of them is someone who has not yet been born, because he hasn't experienced evil on earth.
Job 3:16
"Or why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like babies who never saw the light?
Psalm 58:8
May they be like a snail that dries up as it crawls; like a woman's stillborn baby, who never saw the sun.
Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man is going away, just as it has been written about him. How terrible it will be for that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been better for him if he had never been born."

General references

Genesis 23:19
After this, Abraham buried his wife Sarah in the cave at the field of Machpelah, east of Mamre (that is, in Hebron) in the land of Canaan.

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