Ecclesiastes 6:3

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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.

A man

So

Ecclesiastes 5:17

Genesis 47:9

And also

That an

General references

Genesis 23:19

Bible References

A man

He lifted his eyes and saw the women and the children, and said, “Who are these with you?” So he said, “The children whom God has graciously given your servant.”

Then Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, “May the Lord give you children from this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the Lord.” And they went to their own home.

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, the elders, and to the guardians of the children of Ahab, saying,

Of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons), He has chosen my son Solomon to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.

Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom more than all his other wives and concubines. For he had taken eighteen wives and sixty concubines and fathered twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Then Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the

number of his sons, and every instance where the king had magnified him and how he had

promoted him above the princes and servants of the king.

Like arrows in the hand of a warrior,
So are the children of one’s youth.

Grandchildren are the crown of old men,

And the glory of sons is their fathers.

So

Throughout his life he also eats in darkness with great vexation, sickness and anger.

So Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The

years of my sojourning are one hundred and thirty; few and unpleasant have been the years of my life, nor have they attained the years that my fathers lived during the days of their sojourning.”

And also

They went to bury her, but they found nothing more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows which he had prepared for Mordecai, and the king’s anger subsided.

So the king commanded that it should be done so; and an edict was issued in Susa, and Haman’s ten sons were hanged.

“But you have been cast out of your tomb
Like a rejected branch,

Clothed with the slain who are pierced with a sword,

Who go down to the stones of the pit
Like a trampled corpse.

“He will be buried with a donkey’s burial,
Dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Therefore thus says the Lord concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah, “He shall have no one to sit on the throne of David, and his dead body shall be cast out to the heat of the day and the frost of the night.

That an

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.

“Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be,
As infants that never saw light.

Let them be as a snail which melts away as it goes along,
Like the miscarriages of a woman which never see the sun.

The Son of Man is to go, just as it is written of Him; but woe to that man by whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would have been good for that man if he had not been born.”

General references

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