Ecclesiastes 6:3
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
Cross References
Job 3:16
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Psalm 58:8
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman's stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:3
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 6:4
For he enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.

Isaiah 14:20
You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

Jeremiah 8:2
They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consulted, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up or buried, but will become like dung lying on the ground.

Jeremiah 22:19
He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

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a man

Genesis 33:5
When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, "Who are these with you?" Jacob answered, "These are the children God has graciously given your servant."

1 Samuel 2:20, 21
And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, "May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD." Then they would go home. . . .

2 Kings 10:1
Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:

1 Chronicles 28:5
And of all my sons--for the LORD has given me many sons--He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

2 Chronicles 11:21
Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Esther 5:11
Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.

Psalm 127:4, 5
Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one's youth. . . .

Proverbs 17:6
Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.

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Genesis 47:9
"My pilgrimage has lasted 130 years, " Jacob replied. "My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the lives of my fathers."

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2 Kings 9:35
But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

Esther 7:10
So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

Esther 9:14, 15
So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman. . . .

Isaiah 14:19, 20
But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit, like a carcass trampled underfoot. . . .

Jeremiah 22:19
He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

Jeremiah 36:30
Therefore, this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David's throne, and his body will be thrown out to be exposed to heat by day and frost by night.

that

Ecclesiastes 4:3
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

Job 3:16
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

Psalm 58:8
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman's stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

Matthew 26:24
The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better for him if he had not been born."

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