Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
4For it comes in vanity, and departs in darkness, and the name of it is covered with darkness.
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are a hundred and 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 father
2 Kings 9:35And they went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
1 Chronicles 28:5And of all my sons (for LORD has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of LORD over Israel.
Esther 5:11And Haman recounted to them the glory of his riches, and the multitude of his sons, and all the things in which the king had promoted him, and how he had advanced him above the rulers and servants of the king.
Esther 9:14And the king commanded it so to be done. And a decree was given out in Shushan, and they hanged Haman's ten sons.
Job 3:16Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 6:2-7
The Miseries of Covetousness. 1 There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men: 2 A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease. 3 If a man beget a 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… Read the whole commentary →