Ecclesiastes 4:3
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
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Ecclesiastes 6:3-5
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. . . .

Job 3:10-16
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. . . .

Job 10:18, 19
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! . . .

Jeremiah 20:17, 18
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged. . . .

Matthew 24:19
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!

Luke 23:29
Look, the days are coming when people will say, 'Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed.'

who

Ecclesiastes 1:14
I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

Ecclesiastes 2:17
So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

Psalm 55:6-11
I said, "Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest. . . .

Jeremiah 9:2, 3
If only I had a traveler's lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people. . . .

Parallel Verses
New American Standard Bible
But better off than both of them is the one who has never existed, who has never seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.

King James Bible
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.

Holman Christian Standard Bible
But better than either of them is the one who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil activity that is done under the sun.

International Standard Version
Better than both of them is someone who has not yet been born, because he hasn't experienced evil on earth.

NET Bible
But better than both is the one who has not been born and has not seen the evil things that are done on earth.
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