"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 fi…" — Ecclesiastes 6:3

Ecclesiastes 6:3 · KJV

“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.”

— Ecclesiastes 6:3

Verse 2

A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this {is} vanity, and it {is} an evil disease.

Verse 4

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Ecclesiastes 6 — Context

There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it {is} common among men:

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.

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known {any thing}: this hath more rest than the other.

Cross References

Job 3:16

Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants {which} never saw light.

2 Kings 9:35

And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of {her} hands.

Jeremiah 22:19

He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

Ecclesiastes 4:3

Yea, better {is he} than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Genesis 47:9

And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage {are} an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

Isaiah 14:19-20

But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, {and as} the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

Jeremiah 8:2

And they shall spread them before the sun, and the moon, and all the host of heaven, whom they have loved, and whom they have served, and after whom they have walked, and whom they have sought, and whom they have worshipped: they shall not be gathered, nor be buried; they shall be for dung upon the face of the earth.

Proverbs 17:6

Children's children {are} the crown of old men; and the glory of children {are} their fathers.