Ecclesiastes 4:3
yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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- Luke 23:29 For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.
- Ecclesiastes 6:3–5 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he: for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness; moreover it hath not seen the sun nor known it; this hath rest rather than the other:
- Matthew 24:19 But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!