3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that sthe days of his years are many, but his soul is not satisfied with life’s tgood things, and he also has no uburial, I say that va stillborn child is better off than he.
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Genesis 47:8–9
And Pharaoh said to Jacob, “How many are the days of the years of your life?” And Jacob said to Pharaoh, “The days of the years of my sojourning are 130 years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their sojourning.”
Ecclesiastes 6:6
Even though he should live a thousand years twice over, yet enjoy no good—do not all go to the one place?
Isaiah 14:20
You will not be joined with them in burial,
because you have destroyed your land,
you have slain your people.
“May the offspring of evildoers
nevermore be named!
Jeremiah 8:2
And they shall be spread before the sun and the moon and all the host of heaven, which they have loved and served, which they have gone after, and which they have sought and worshiped. And they shall not be gathered or buried. They shall be as dung on the surface of the ground.
Jeremiah 22:19
With the burial of a donkey he shall be buried,
dragged and dumped beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
2 Kings 9:35
But when they went to bury her, they found no more of her than the skull and the feet and the palms of her hands.
Ecclesiastes 4:3
But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.
Job 3:16
Or why was I not as a hidden stillborn child,
as infants who never see the light?
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