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Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, happier than the dead or the living seemed he who has not ever been, who has not seen the evil which is done under the sun.

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Ecclesiastes 4:2
So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

Ecclesiastes 1:3
What is a man profited by all his work which he does under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 1:8
All things are full of weariness; man may not give their story: the eye has never enough of its seeing, or the ear of its hearing.

Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the works which are done under the sun; all is to no purpose, and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:11
Then I saw all the works which my hands had made, and everything I had been working to do; and I saw that all was to no purpose and desire for wind, and there was no profit under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 3:16
And again, I saw under the sun, in the place of the judges, that evil was there; and in the place of righteousness, that evil was there.

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Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man has a hundred children, and his life is long so that the days of his years are great in number, but his soul takes no pleasure in good, and he is not honoured at his death; I say that a birth before its time is better than he.

Ecclesiastes 6:4
In wind it came and to the dark it will go, and with the dark will its name be covered.

Ecclesiastes 6:5
Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.

Job 3:10
Because it did not keep the doors of my mother's body shut, so that trouble might be veiled from my eyes.

Job 3:11
Why did death not take me when I came out of my mother's body, why did I not, when I came out, give up my last breath?

Job 3:16
Or as a child dead at birth I might never have come into existence; like young children who have not seen the light.

Job 10:19
And for me to have been as if I had not been; to have been taken from my mother's body straight to my last resting-place.

Matthew 24:19
But it will be hard for women who are with child and for those with babies at the breast in those days.

Matthew 26:24
The Son of man goes, even as the Writings say of him: but a curse is on that man through whom the Son of man is given up; it would have been well for that man if he had never come into the world.

Luke 23:29
For the days are coming in which they will say, Happy are those who have had no children, whose bodies have never given birth, whose breasts have never given milk.

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Ecclesiastes 2:24
There is nothing better for a man than taking meat and drink, and having delight in his work. This again I saw was from the hand of God.

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Ecclesiastes 6:12
Who is able to say what is good for man in life all the days of his foolish life which he goes through like a shade? who will say what is to be after him under the sun?

Ecclesiastes 8:16
When I gave my mind to the knowledge of wisdom and to seeing the business which is done on the earth (and there are those whose eyes see not sleep by day or by night),

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Ecclesiastes 2:4
I undertook great works, building myself houses and planting vine-gardens.

Ecclesiastes 2:5
I made myself gardens and fruit gardens, planting in them fruit-trees of all sorts.

Ecclesiastes 2:6
I made pools to give water for the woods with their young trees.

Ecclesiastes 2:7
I got men-servants and women-servants, and they gave birth to sons and daughters in my house. I had great wealth of herds and flocks, more than all who were in Jerusalem before me.

Ecclesiastes 2:8
I got together silver and gold and the wealth of kings and of countries. I got makers of song, male and female; and the delights of the sons of men--girls of all sorts to be my brides.

Ecclesiastes 2:9
And I became great; increasing more than all who had been before me in Jerusalem, and my wisdom was still with me.

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Ecclesiastes 5:18
This is what I have seen: it is good and fair for a man to take meat and drink and to have joy in all his work under the sun, all the days of his life which God has given him; that is his reward.

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