Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, 1 Yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, 1 Yet if his soul shall not be satisfied with good, 1 And also he have no burial; 1 I said, An untimely birth is better than he. 1
Updated Brenton Septuagint
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In Context
4For he came in vanity, and departs in darkness, 1 And his name shall be covered in darkness. 1
Cross References
Genesis 47:9And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my life, wherein I sojourn, are a hundred and thirty years; few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, they have not attained to the days of the life of my fathers, in which days they sojourned.
2 Kings 9:35And they went to bury her; but they found nothing of her but the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
1 Chronicles 28:5And of all my sons (for the Lord has given me many sons), he has chosen Solomon my son, to set him on the throne of the kingdom of the Lord over Israel.
Job 3:16Or I should have been as an untimely birth proceeding from his mother’s womb, 1 Or as infants who never saw light. 1
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 →