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 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.
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.
- Job 3:167 votes
Or why was I not hidden like a stillborn child, like an infant who never sees daylight?
- 2 Kings 9:354 votes
But when they went out to bury her, they found nothing but her skull, her feet, and the palms of her hands.
- Ecclesiastes 4:34 votes
But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.
- Jeremiah 22:194 votes
He will be buried like a donkey, dragged away and thrown outside the gates of Jerusalem.
- Genesis 47:93 votes
“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.”
- Isaiah 14:19–203 votes
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.
- Genesis 33:52 votes
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.”
- 1 Samuel 2:20–212 votes
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.
- 2 Kings 10:12 votes
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:
- 1 Chronicles 28:52 votes
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.
- 2 Chronicles 11:212 votes
- Esther 5:112 votes
- Esther 7:102 votes
- Esther 9:14–152 votes
- Psalm 58:82 votes
Like a slug that dissolves in its slime, like a woman’s stillborn child, may they never see the sun.
- Psalm 127:4–52 votes
- Proverbs 17:62 votes
- Ecclesiastes 5:17–192 votes
- Jeremiah 8:22 votes
- Jeremiah 36:302 votes
Which verses point to Ecclesiastes 6:3?
The 10 strongest of 18.