Even if a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years -- even if he lives a long, long time, but cannot enjoy his prosperity -- even if he were to live forever -- I would say, "A stillborn child is better off than he is!"

I know that there is nothing better for them, than to rejoice, and to do good so long as they live.

Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

In my futile life I have seen everything: there is a righteous man who perishes in spite of his righteousness, and there is a wicked man who lives long in spite of his evil.

Though a sinner commits crimes a hundred times, and lives long, yet surely I know that it will be better with those who fear God, who are reverent before him.

So I thought in my heart, to withdraw my flesh from wine, to apply my mind unto wisdom, and to comprehend foolishness until the time that among all the things which are under the Sun, I might see what were best for men to do, so long as they live under heaven.

For he thinketh not much how long he shall live, forsomuch as God filleth his heart with gladness.

Among all things that come to pass under the Sun, this is a mystery, that it happeneth unto all alike. This is the cause also that the hearts of men are full of wickedness, and mad foolishness is in their hearts, as long as they live, until they die.

That which is hath been long ago; and that which is to be hath long ago been: and God seeketh again that which is passed away.

And although he lived a thousand years twice, and he saw not good. Did not all go to one place?