Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
American Standard Version
3 If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he: 4 for it cometh in vanity, and departeth in darkness, and the name thereof is covered with darkness; 5 moreover it hath not seen the sun [a]nor known it; [b]this hath rest rather than the other:
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- Ecclesiastes 6:5 Or, neither had any knowledge
- Ecclesiastes 6:5 Or, it is better with this than with the other
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
New American Standard Bible 1995
3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many [a]they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper (A)burial, then I say, “Better (B)the miscarriage than he, 4 for it comes in futility and goes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity. 5 It never sees the sun and it never knows anything; [b]it is better off than he.
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- Ecclesiastes 6:3 Lit the days of his years
- Ecclesiastes 6:5 Lit more rest has this one than that
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