Ecclesiastes 6:5
Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.
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Ecclesiastes 6:5
Yes, it saw not the sun, and it had no knowledge; it is better with this than with the other.
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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.
Ecclesiastes 6:6
And though he goes on living a thousand years twice over and does not see good, are not the two going to the same place?
Ecclesiastes 7:1
A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.
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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 3:12
Why did the knees take me, or why the breasts that they might give me milk?
Job 3:13
For then I might have gone to my rest in quiet, and in sleep have been in peace,
Job 10:18
Why then did you make me come out of my mother's body? It would have been better for me to have taken my last breath, and for no eye to have seen me,
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.
Jeremiah 20:17
Because he did not put me to death before my birth took place: so my mother's body would have been my last resting-place, and she would have been with child for ever.
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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.
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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