Cross references
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.
Ecclesiastes 4:3 has 11 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 1 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Luke 23:29 (4 votes) and Ecclesiastes 6:3–5 (3 votes). 6 other verses point back to it. It links with 6 other books, from Job 3 to Luke 23.
Which verses does Ecclesiastes 4:3 point to?
Ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.
- Luke 23:294 votes
Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’
- Ecclesiastes 6:3–53 votes
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. For a stillborn child enters in futility and departs in darkness, and his name is shrouded in obscurity. …
- Matthew 24:193 votes
How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!
- Job 3:10–162 votes
For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes. Why did I not perish at birth; why did I not die as I came from the womb? …
- Job 3:222 votes
who rejoice and greatly exult when they reach the grave?
- Job 10:18–192 votes
Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me! If only I had never come to be, but had been carried from the womb to the grave.
- Psalm 55:6–112 votes
I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest. How far away I would flee! In the wilderness I would remain. Selah …
- Ecclesiastes 2:172 votes
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.
- Jeremiah 9:2–32 votes
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. “They bend their tongues like bows; lies prevail over truth in the land. For they proceed from evil to evil, and they do not take Me into account,” declares the LORD.
- Jeremiah 20:17–182 votes
because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged. Why did I come out of the womb to see only trouble and sorrow, and to end my days in shame?
- Ecclesiastes 1:141 vote
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.
Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 4:3?
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