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.
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Cross references
- Luke 23:29 Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
- Ecclesiastes 6:3–5 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. For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity. The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,
- Matthew 24:19 How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!