Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

³A 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.

⁴For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity.

⁵The child, though neither seeing the sun nor knowing anything, has more rest than that man,

— Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

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Cross References for Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

• Job 3:16
• 2 Kings 9:35
• Ecclesiastes 4:3
• Psalm 58:8
• Jeremiah 22:19
• Isaiah 14:19-20
• Genesis 47:9
• Esther 5:11
• 2 Chronicles 11:21
• Job 14:1

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