If a man beget one hundred [children], and live many years, yes, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet [if] his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.
LXX
Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget a hundred [children], and live many years, yea, however abundant the days of his years shall be, yet [if] his soul shall not be satisfied with good, and also he have no burial; I said, An untimely birth is better than he.
Parallel Translations
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.
If a man fathers a hundred children, and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better than he;
Cross References
Job 3:162 Kings 9:35Ecclesiastes 4:3Jeremiah 22:19Isaiah 14:19–20Genesis 47:92 Chronicles 11:21Jeremiah 36:30Matthew 26:241 Samuel 2:20–21Psalms 127:4–5Esther 7:102 Kings 10:1Esther 9:14–15Jeremiah 8:2
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