Cross references

Ecclesiastes 6:3

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.

Ecclesiastes 6:3 BSB

Ecclesiastes 6:3 has 21 cross-references in the OpenBible.info data, 4 of them with at least 4 reader votes. The strongest point to Job 3:16 (7 votes) and 2 Kings 9:35 (4 votes). 18 other verses point back to it. It links with 14 other books, from Genesis 15 to Revelation 11.

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Which verses does Ecclesiastes 6:3 point to?

The 20 strongest of 21, ranked by reader votes. Links with fewer than 4 votes are marked weak.

  1. Job 3:167 votes

    Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?

  2. But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.

  3. But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

  4. He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.

  5. “My travels have lasted 130 years,” Jacob replied. “My years have been few and hard, and they have not matched the years of the travels of my fathers.”

  6. But you are cast out of your grave like a rejected branch, covered by those slain with the sword, and dumped into a rocky pit like a carcass trampled underfoot. You will not join them in burial, since you have destroyed your land and slaughtered your own people. The offspring of the wicked will never again be mentioned.

  7. When Esau looked up and saw the women and children, he asked, “Who are these with you?” Jacob answered, “These are the children God has graciously given your servant.”

  8. And Eli would bless Elkanah and his wife, saying, “May the LORD give you children by this woman in place of the one she dedicated to the LORD.” Then they would go home. So the LORD attended to Hannah, and she conceived and gave birth to three sons and two daughters. Meanwhile, the boy Samuel grew up in the presence of the LORD.

  9. Now Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. So Jehu wrote letters and sent them to Samaria to the officials of Jezreel, to the elders, and to the guardians of the sons of Ahab, saying:

  10. And of all my sons—for the LORD has given me many sons—He has chosen Solomon my son to sit on the throne of the kingdom of the LORD over Israel.

  11. Psalm 58:82 votes

    Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.

Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 6:3?

The 10 strongest of 18.