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

And he lift up his eyes and saw the wives and their children, and said, "What are these which thou there hast?" And he said, "They are the children which God hath given thy servant."

And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "The LORD give thee seed of this woman, for that she hath lent the LORD." And they went unto their own home.

Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria - unto the elders that were lords of Jezreel, and to them that nursed up Ahab's children - saying, "Now at the coming of these letters to you,

And of all my sons - for the LORD hath given me many sons - he hath chosen Solomon my son, to sit on the seat of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

But Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and concubines for he took eighteen wives and three score concubines, and begat three score daughters and twenty eight sons.

and told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his children all together how the king had promoted him so greatly, and how that he was taken above the princes and servants of the king.

Like as the arrows in the hand of the giant, even so are the young children.

Children's children are a crown of the aged, and the fathers are the honour of the children.

So

All the days of his life also must he eat in the dark, with great carefulness, sickness and sorrow.

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, "The days of my pilgrimage are a hundred and thirty years. Few and evil have the days of my life been, and have not attained unto the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimages."

And also

And when they came to bury her, they found no more of her, than the skull and the two feet and the two hands.

So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had made for Mordecai. Then was the king's wrath pacified.

And the king charged to do so, and the commandment was devised at Susa, and Haman's ten sons were hanged.

and thou art cast out of thy grave like a wild branch - like as dead men's raiment that are shot through with the sword, as they that go down to the stones of the deep, as a dead corpse that is trodden under feet -

But as an Ass shall he be buried corrupt, and be cast without the gates of Jerusalem.

Therefore thus the LORD sayeth, of Jehoiakim the king of Judah: There shall none of his generation sit upon the throne of David. His dead corpse shall be cast out, that the heat of the day and the frost of the night may come upon him.

That an

Yea, him that is yet unborn to be better at ease than they both, because he seeth not the miserable works that are done under the Sun.

O that I utterly had no being, or were as a thing born out of time that is put aside, either as young children, which never saw the light.

Let them consume away like a snail, and like the untimely fruit of a woman; and let them not see the sun.

The son of man goeth as it is written of him: but woe be to that man, by whom the son of man shall be betrayed. It had been good for that man, if he had never been born."

General references

And then Abraham buried Sara his wife in the double cave of the field that lieth before Mamre, otherwise called Hebron in the land of Canaan.