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Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
Amplified Bible, Classic Edition
3 If a man begets a hundred children and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his life is not filled with good, and also he is given no burial [honors nor is laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], I say that [he who had] an untimely birth [resulting in death] is better off than he,(A)
4 For [the untimely one] comes in futility and goes into darkness, and in darkness his name is covered.
5 Moreover, he has not seen the sun nor had any knowledge, yet he [the stillborn child] has rest rather than he [who is aware of all that he has missed and all that he would not have had to suffer].
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