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)

For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness.(Ecclesiastes 6:4)

Moreover he hath not seen the sun, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other.(Ecclesiastes 6:5)

Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?

All the labour of man is for his mouth, and yet the appetite is not filled.(Ecclesiastes 6:7)

For what hath the wise more than the fool? what hath the poor, that knoweth to walk before the living?(Ecclesiastes 6:8)

Better is the sight of the eyes than the wandering of the desire: this is also vanity and vexation of spirit.(Ecclesiastes 6:9)

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Ecclesiastes 6:6 - Cross Reference

And all the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: (Genesis 5:23)

For I know that thou wilt bring me to death, and to the house appointed for all living. (Job 30:23)

And as it is appointed unto men once to die, but after this the judgment: (Hebrews 9:27)

O remember that my life is wind: mine eye shall no more see good. (Job 7:7)

There be many that say, Who will shew us any good? LORD, lift thou up the light of thy countenance upon us. (Psalm 4:6)

Then shall the dust return to the earth as it was: and the spirit shall return unto God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12:7)

There shall be no more thence an infant of days, nor an old man that hath not filled his days: for the child shall die an hundred years old; but the sinner being an hundred years old shall be accursed. (Isaiah 65:20)

And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died. (Genesis 5:5)

For he shall be like the heath in the desert, and shall not see when good cometh; but shall inhabit the parched places in the wilderness, in a salt land and not inhabited. (Jeremiah 17:6)

All go unto one place; all are of the dust, and all turn to dust again. (Ecclesiastes 3:20)

And said, Naked came I out of my mother's womb, and naked shall I return thither: the LORD gave, and the LORD hath taken away; blessed be the name of the LORD. (Job 1:21)

They shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands. (Isaiah 65:22)

What man is he that desireth life, and loveth many days, that he may see good? (Psalm 34:12)