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