Ecclesiastes 6:3

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Ecclesiastes 6:3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper burial, then I say, "Better the miscarriage than he, (NASB ©1995)

Job 3:16 "Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.

Ecclesiastes 4:3 But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.

Isaiah 14:20 "You will not be united with them in burial, Because you have ruined your country, You have slain your people. May the offspring of evildoers not be mentioned forever.

Jeremiah 8:2 "They will spread them out to the sun, the moon and to all the host of heaven, which they have loved and which they have served, and which they have gone after and which they have sought, and which they have worshiped. They will not be gathered or buried; they will be as dung on the face of the ground.

Jeremiah 22:19 "He will be buried with a donkey's burial, Dragged off and thrown out beyond the gates of Jerusalem. (NASB ©1995)

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If a man beget an 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 say, that an untimely birth is better than he.

a man Ge 33:5 1Sa 2:20,21 2Ki 10:1 1Ch 28:5 2Ch 11:21 Es 5:11 Ps 127:4,5 Pr 17:6

so 5:17-19 Ge 47:9

and also 2Ki 9:35 Es 7:10 9:14,15 Isa 14:19,20 Jer 22:19 36:30

that 4:3 Job 3:16 Ps 58:8 Mt 26:24

Concordance Entries

Beget Begets Begetteth Better Birth Burial Child Death Enjoy Fathers Filled Goodness Grave Honoured However Hundred Life's Matter Miscarriage Moreover Pleasure Proper Prosperity Receive Satisfied Sons Soul Stillborn Takes Untimely Yet

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Beget Begetteth Better Birth Burial Child Children Enjoy Fathers Filled Good However Hundred Live Matter Miscarriage Moreover Proper Prosperity Receive Satisfied Soul Stillborn Untimely Years

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Beget Begetteth Better Birth Burial Child Children Enjoy Fathers Filled Good However Hundred Live Matter Miscarriage Moreover Proper Prosperity Receive Satisfied Soul Stillborn Untimely Years

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