Ecclesiastes 4:3 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better than both is he who has not yet been and has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

Luke 23:29 Helpful? Yes No

For behold, the days are coming when they will say, ‘Blessed are the barren and the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’

Matthew 24:19 Helpful? Yes No

And alas for women who are pregnant and for those who are nursing infants in those days!

Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 Helpful? Yes No

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 satisfied with life's good things, and he also has no burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he. For it comes in vanity and goes in darkness, and in darkness its name is covered. Moreover, it has not seen the sun or known anything, yet it finds rest rather than he.

Jeremiah 20:17-18 Helpful? Yes No

because he did not kill me in the womb; so my mother would have been my grave, and her womb forever great. Why did I come out from the womb to see toil and sorrow, and spend my days in shame?

Jeremiah 9:2-3 Helpful? Yes No

Oh that I had in the desert a travelers' lodging place, that I might leave my people and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, a company of treacherous men. They bend their tongue like a bow; falsehood and not truth has grown strong in the land; for they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not know me, declares the Lord.

Ecclesiastes 2:17 Helpful? Yes No

So I hated life, because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Psalm 55:6-11 Helpful? Yes No

And I say, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and be at rest; yes, I would wander far away; I would lodge in the wilderness; Selah I would hurry to find a shelter from the raging wind and tempest.” Destroy, O Lord, divide their tongues; for I see violence and strife in the city. Day and night they go around it on its walls, and iniquity and trouble are within it;

Job 10:18-19 Helpful? Yes No

“Why did you bring me out from the womb? Would that I had died before any eye had seen me and were as though I had not been, carried from the womb to the grave.

Job 3:22 Helpful? Yes No

who rejoice exceedingly and are glad when they find the grave?

Job 3:10-16 Helpful? Yes No

because it did not shut the doors of my mother's womb, nor hide trouble from my eyes. “Why did I not die at birth, come out from the womb and expire? Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breasts, that I should nurse? For then I would have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept; then I would have been at rest, with kings and counselors of the earth who rebuilt ruins for themselves,

Ecclesiastes 1:14 Helpful? Yes No

I have seen everything that is done under the sun, and behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.