Treasury of Scripture Knowledge
Ecclesiastes 6:3 Cross-References
Explore 20 cross-references for Ecclesiastes 6:3 from the Treasury of Scripture Knowledge, connecting Ecclesiastes chapter 6 verse 3 to related passages throughout the Bible.
“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 (KJV)
Commentary on Ecclesiastes 6:3
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years—the Preacher constructs an extreme hypothetical representing maximum fertility and longevity, both considered covenant blessings (Deuteronomy 28:4, 11). And his soul be not filled with good (וְנַפְשׁוֹ לֹא־תִשְׂבַּע מִן־הַטּוֹבָה, ve-nafsho lo-tisba min-hatovah)—despite external blessings, inner satisfaction remains absent. And also that he have no burial—dying without proper burial constituted profound disgrace in ancient culture, suggesting dying unmourned or in judgment (Jeremiah 22:18-19).The shocking conclusion: I say, that an untime...
Source: KJV Study Commentary
Cross-References for Ecclesiastes 6:3
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“as infants who never saw light.”
“and the feet”
“drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.”
“better than them both is him who has not yet been”
“The days of the years of my pilgrimage are one hundred thirty years. Few and evil have been the days of the years of my life, and they have not attained to the days of the years of the life of my fathers in the days of their pilgrimage.”
“clothed with the slain”
“And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given at Shushan; and they hanged Haman's ten sons.”
“and sixty concubines”
“even as it is written of him”
“he has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of Yahweh over Israel.”