Ecclesiastes 6:3
"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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- Job 3:16
"Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 22:19
"He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem."
Read in chapter → - Ecclesiastes 4:3
"Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun."
Read in chapter → - 2 Kings 9:35
"And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands."
Read in chapter → - Isaiah 14:19
"But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 47:9
"And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage."
Read in chapter → - Jeremiah 36:30
"Therefore thus saith the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall have none to sit upon the throne of David: and his dead body shall be cast out in the day to the heat, and in the night to the frost."
Read in chapter → - Genesis 33:5
"And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and said, Who are those with thee? And he said, The children which God hath graciously given thy servant."
Read in chapter → - 2 Chronicles 11:21
"And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his wives and his concubines: for he took eighteen wives, and threescore concubines; and begat twenty and eight sons, and threescore daughters."
Read in chapter → - 1 Chronicles 28:5
"And of all my sons, for the LORD hath given me many sons, he hath chosen Solomon my son to sit upon the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel."
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