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Ecclesiastes 6:3 KJV
Ecclesiastes · chapter 6 · verse 3
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.Ecclesiastes 6:3 · King James Version
Ecclesiastes 6:3 in context
1There is an evil which I have seen under the sun, and it is common among men:
2A man to whom God hath given riches, wealth, and honour, so that he wanteth nothing for his soul of all that he desireth, yet God giveth him not power to eat thereof, but a stranger eateth it: this is vanity, and it is an evil disease.
3If 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.
4For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.
5Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.
Commentary
Key words (Strong's)
- hundredmêʼâha hundredH3967 →
- filledsâbaʻto sateH7646 →
- burialqᵉbûwrâhsepultureH6900 →
- begetyâladto bear youngH3205 →
- yearsshâneha yearH8141 →
- livechâyâhto live, whether literally or figurativelyH2421 →
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Solomon had shown, in the close of the foregoing chapter, how good it is to make a comfortable use of the gifts of God's providence;
— Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary on verses 1-6