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 unot satisfied with life’s good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a vstillborn child is wbetter off than he.
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Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness;
a man cannot utter it;
the eye is not satisfied with seeing,
nor the ear filled with hearing.
Ecclesiastes 4:8
one person who has no other, either son or brother, yet there is no end to all his toil, and his eyes are never satisfied with riches, so that he never asks, “For whom am I toiling and depriving myself of pleasure?” This also is vanity and an unhappy business.
Ecclesiastes 5:10
He who loves money will not be satisfied with money, nor he who loves wealth with his income; this also is vanity.
Job 3:16
Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child,
as infants who never see the light?
Ecclesiastes 4:2
And I thought the dead who are already dead more fortunate than the living who are still alive.
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than precious ointment,
and the day of death than the day of birth.
Luke 23:29
For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’
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