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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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ASV

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

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.

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Original language & word study

25 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
אִם־'im-ifH518 →
יוֹלִ֣ידyo.Lidhe will fatherH3205 →
אִ֣ישׁ'ishanyoneH376 →
מֵאָ֡הme.'Ahone hundred [children]H3967 →
וְשָׁנִים֩ve.sha.Nimand yearsH8141 →
רַבּ֨וֹתra.BotmanyH7227 →
יִֽחְיֶ֜הyich.Yehhe will liveH2421 →
וְרַ֣ב׀ve.Ravand [will be] manyH7227 →
שֶׁיִּהְי֣וּshei.yih.Yu[that] which <they> will beH1961 →
יְמֵֽי־ye.mei-[the] days ofH3117 →
שָׁנָ֗יוsha.Navyears hisH8141 →
וְנַפְשׁוֹ֙ve.naf.Shoand self hisH5315 →
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
תִשְׂבַּ֣עtis.Ba'it will be satisfiedH7646 →
מִן־min-fromH4480 →
הַטּוֹבָ֔הha.to.Vahthe goodH2896 →
וְגַם־ve.gam-and alsoH1571 →
קְבוּרָ֖הke.vu.RahburialH6900 →
לֹא־lo'-notH3808 →
הָ֣יְתָהHa.ye.tahit belongedH1961 →
לּ֑וֹloto <the> him
אָמַ֕רְתִּי'a.Mar.tiI sayH559 →
ט֥וֹבTov[is] goodH2896 →
מִמֶּ֖נּוּmi.Me.numore than himH4480 →
הַנָּֽפֶל׃ha.Na.felthe miscarriageH5309 →

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Job 3:16Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?Ecclesiastes 6:7All a man’s labor is for his mouth, yet his appetite is never satisfied.Ecclesiastes 4:3But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.2 Kings 9:35But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.Jeremiah 22:19He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.Isaiah 14:19–20But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot.Genesis 47:9“My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”Genesis 15:15You, however, will go to your fathers in peace and be buried at a ripe old age.Jeremiah 20:17because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.Psalms 58:8Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.1 Samuel 2:20–21And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home.2 Chronicles 11:21Rehoboam loved Maacah daughter of Absalom more than all his wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and he was the father of twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.Psalms 127:4–5Like arrows in the hand of a warrior, so are children born in one’s youth.Proverbs 17:6Grandchildren are the crown of the aged, and the glory of a son is his father.Esther 5:11Haman recounted to them his glorious wealth, his many sons, and all the ways the king had honored and promoted him over the other officials and servants.Jeremiah 36:30Therefore this is what the LORD says about Jehoiakim king of Judah: He will have no one to sit on David’s throne, and his body will be thrown out and exposed to heat by day and frost by night.Genesis 33:5When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”1 Chronicles 28:5And 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 of the LORD over Israel.

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King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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