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.

Cross References (21)

  • Job 3:16 (7)

    Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

  • Ecclesiastes 4:3 (4)

    But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

  • Jeremiah 22:19 (4)

    He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

  • 2 Kings 9:35 (4)

    But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

  • Isaiah 14:19–20 (3)

    But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rock

  • Genesis 47:9 (3)

    “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years

  • Jeremiah 36:30 (2)

    Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and hi

  • Matthew 26:24 (2)

    The Son of Man will go just as it is written about Him, but woe to that man by whom He is betrayed. It would be better f

  • Jeremiah 8:2 (2)

    They will be exposed to the sun and moon, and to all the host of heaven which they have loved, served, followed, consult

  • Esther 9:14–15 (2)

    So the king commanded that this be done. An edict was issued in Susa, and they hanged the ten sons of Haman.

  • 2 Kings 10:1 (2)

    Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the

  • Psalms 127:4–5 (2)

    Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.

  • 1 Chronicles 28:5 (2)

    And of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom

  • Esther 7:10 (2)

    So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had prepared for Mordecai. Then the fury of the king subsided.

  • Genesis 33:5 (2)

    When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the c

  • Proverbs 17:6 (2)

    Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.

  • Psalms 58:8 (2)

    Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

  • 2 Chronicles 11:21 (2)

    Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixt

  • Esther 5:11 (2)

    Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over

  • Ecclesiastes 5:17–19 (2)

    Moreover, all his days he eats in darkness, with much sorrow, sickness, and anger.

  • 1 Samuel 2:20–21 (2)

    And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she