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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 {H376} beget {H3205} an hundred {H3967} children, and live {H2421} many {H7227} years {H8141}, so that the days {H3117} of his years {H8141} be many {H7227}, and his soul {H5315} be not filled {H7646} with good {H2896}, and also that he have no burial {H6900}; I say {H559}, that an untimely birth {H5309} is better {H2896} than he.

Suppose a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that he has a long life, but he fails to enjoy himself; then, even if he were to [live indefinitely and therefore] never be buried, I say that it would be better to be born dead.

A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:

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Cross-References

  • Job 3:16 (7 votes)

    Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants [which] never saw light.

  • Ecclesiastes 4:3 (4 votes)

    Yea, better [is he] than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

  • 2 Kings 9:35 (4 votes)

    And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of [her] hands.

  • Jeremiah 22:19 (4 votes)

    He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.

  • Genesis 47:9 (3 votes)

    And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage [are] an hundred and thirty years: few and evil have the days of the years of my life been, and have not attained unto the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.

  • Isaiah 14:19 (3 votes)

    But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, [and as] the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet.

  • Isaiah 14:20 (3 votes)

    Thou shalt not be joined with them in burial, because thou hast destroyed thy land, [and] slain thy people: the seed of evildoers shall never be renowned.