Ecclesiastes 6:3 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 6:3

3: 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.

Job 3:16

  1. Why was I not buried like a stillborn child, like a baby who never lives to see the light?

Jeremiah 22:19

  1. He will be buried like a dead donkey--dragged out of Jerusalem and dumped outside the gate!

Ecclesiastes 4:3

  1. 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.

2 Kings 9:35

  1. But when they went out to bury her, they found only her skull, her feet, and her hands.

Isaiah 14:19

  1. but you will be thrown out of your grave like a worthless branch. Like a corpse trampled underfoot, you will be dumped into a mass grave with those killed in battle. You will descend to the pit.
  2. You will not be given a proper burial, for you have destroyed your nation and slaughtered your people. Your son will not succeed you as king.

Genesis 47:9

  1. Jacob replied, "I have lived for 130 hard years, but I am still not nearly as old as many of my ancestors."

Esther 9:14

  1. So the king agreed, and the decree was announced in Susa. They also hung the bodies of Haman's ten sons from the gallows.
  2. Then the Jews at Susa gathered together on March 8 and killed three hundred more people, though again they took no plunder.

Ecclesiastes 5:17

  1. Throughout their lives, they live under a cloud--frustrated, discouraged, and angry.
  2. Even so, I have noticed one thing, at least, that is good. It is good for people to eat well, drink a good glass of wine, and enjoy their work--whatever they do under the sun--for however long God lets them live.
  3. And it is a good thing to receive wealth from God and the good health to enjoy it. To enjoy your work and accept your lot in life--that is indeed a gift from God.

2 Chronicles 11:21

  1. Rehoboam loved Maacah more than any of his other wives and concubines. In all, he had eighteen wives and sixty concubines, and they gave birth to twenty-eight sons and sixty daughters.

Jeremiah 8:2

  1. They will dig out their bones and spread them out on the ground before the sun, moon, and stars--the gods my people have loved, served, and worshiped. Their bones will not be gathered up again or buried but will be scattered on the ground like dung.

Esther 5:11

  1. and boasted to them about his great wealth and his many children. He bragged about the honors the king had given him and how he had been promoted over all the other officials and leaders.

Genesis 33:5

  1. Then Esau looked at the women and children and asked, "Who are these people with you?These are the children God has graciously given to me," Jacob replied.

Psalms 127:4

  1. Children born to a young man are like sharp arrows in a warrior's hands.
  2. How happy is the man whose quiver is full of them! He will not be put to shame when he confronts his accusers at the city gates.

Proverbs 17:6

  1. Grandchildren are the crowning glory of the aged; parents are the pride of their children.

1 Chronicles 28:5

  1. And from among my sons--for the LORD has given me many children--he chose Solomon to succeed me on the throne of his kingdom of Israel.

2 Kings 10:1

  1. Now Ahab had seventy sons living in the city of Samaria. So Jehu wrote a letter and sent copies to Samaria, to the officials of the city, to the leaders of the people, and to the guardians of King Ahab's sons. The letter said,

Jeremiah 36:30

  1. Now this is what the LORD says about King Jehoiakim of Judah: He will have no heirs to sit on the throne of David. His dead body will be thrown out to lie unburied--exposed to hot days and frosty nights.

1 Samuel 2:20

  1. Before they returned home, Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife and say, "May the LORD give you other children to take the place of this one she gave to the LORD. "
  2. And the LORD gave Hannah three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.

Matthew 26:24

  1. For I, the Son of Man, must die, as the Scriptures declared long ago. But how terrible it will be for my betrayer. Far better for him if he had never been born!"

Esther 7:10

  1. So they hanged Haman on the gallows he had set up for Mordecai, and the king's anger was pacified.

Psalms 58:8

  1. May they be like snails that dissolve into slime, like a stillborn child who will never see the sun.
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