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 up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, "Who are these with you?" He said, "The children whom God has graciously given your servant."

Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, "Yahweh give you seed of this woman for the petition which was asked of Yahweh." They went to their own home.

Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. Jehu wrote letters, and sent to Samaria, to the rulers of Jezreel, even the elders, and to those who brought up [the sons of] Ahab, saying,

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

Rehoboam loved Maacah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: (for he took eighteen wives, and sixty concubines, and became the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.)

Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, the multitude of his children, all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the princes and servants of the king.

As arrows in the hand of a mighty man, so are the children of youth.

Children's children are the crown of old men; the glory of children are their parents.

So

All his days he also eats in darkness, he is frustrated, and has sickness and wrath.

Jacob said to Pharaoh, "The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."

And also

They went to bury her; but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.

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

The king commanded this to be done. A decree was given out in Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.

But you are cast away from your tomb like an abominable branch, clothed with the slain, who are thrust through with the sword, who go down to the stones of the pit; like a dead body trodden under foot.

He shall be buried with the burial of a donkey, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Therefore thus says Yahweh concerning Jehoiakim king of Judah: He shall have none to sit on the throne of David; and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost.

That an

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.

Let them be like a snail which melts and passes away, like the stillborn child, who has not seen the sun.

The Son of Man goes, even as it is written of him, but woe to that man through whom the Son of Man is betrayed! It would be better for that man if he had not been born."

General references

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