Ecclesiastes 4:3 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:3

3: And most fortunate of all are those who were never born. For they have never seen all the evil that is done in our world.

Luke 23:29

  1. For the days are coming when they will say, 'Fortunate indeed are the women who are childless, the wombs that have not borne a child and the breasts that have never nursed.'

Matthew 24:19

  1. How terrible it will be for pregnant women and for mothers nursing their babies in those days.

Ecclesiastes 6:3

  1. A man might have a hundred children and live to be very old. But if he finds no satisfaction in life and in the end does not even get a decent burial, I say he would have been better off born dead.
  2. I realize that his birth would have been meaningless and ended in darkness. He wouldn't even have had a name,
  3. and he would never have seen the sun or known of its existence. Yet he would have had more peace than he has in growing up to be an unhappy man.

Job 3:22

  1. It is a blessed relief when they finally die, when they find the grave.

Ecclesiastes 1:14

  1. Everything under the sun is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

Psalms 55:6

  1. Oh, how I wish I had wings like a dove; then I would fly away and rest!
  2. I would fly far away to the quiet of the wilderness.
  3. How quickly I would escape--far away from this wild storm of hatred.
  4. Destroy them, Lord, and confuse their speech, for I see violence and strife in the city.
  5. Its walls are patrolled day and night against invaders, but the real danger is wickedness within the city.

Job 3:10

  1. Curse it for its failure to shut my mother's womb, for letting me be born to all this trouble.
  2. "Why didn't I die at birth as I came from the womb?
  3. Why did my mother let me live? Why did she nurse me at her breasts?
  4. For if I had died at birth, I would be at peace now, asleep and at rest.
  5. I would rest with the world's kings and prime ministers, famous for their great construction projects.

Ecclesiastes 2:17

  1. So now I hate life because everything done here under the sun is so irrational. Everything is meaningless, like chasing the wind.

Job 10:18

  1. " `Why, then, did you bring me out of my mother's womb? Why didn't you let me die at birth?
  2. Then I would have been spared this miserable existence. I would have gone directly from the womb to the grave.

Jeremiah 20:17

  1. for he did not kill me at birth. Oh, that I had died in my mother's womb, that her body had been my grave!
  2. Why was I ever born? My entire life has been filled with trouble, sorrow, and shame.

Jeremiah 9:2

  1. Oh, that I could go away and forget them and live in a shack in the desert, for they are all adulterous and treacherous.
  2. "My people bend their tongues like bows to shoot lies. They refuse to stand up for the truth. And they only go from bad to worse! They care nothing for me," says the LORD.
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