Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man fathers a hundred children, 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 a stillborn child is better than he;
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Cross references
- Job 3:16 or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light.
- 2 Kings 9:35 They went to bury her, but they found no more of her than the skull, the feet, and the palms of her hands.
- Ecclesiastes 4:3 Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.