Ecclesiastes 4:3 References

3 But abetter 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.

a Job 3:11-22, Ecclesiastes 6:3, Luke 23:29

Job 3

11 "aWhy did I not die at birth, Come forth from the womb and expire?
12 "Why did the knees receive me, And why the breasts, that I should suck?
13 "For now I awould have lain down and been quiet; I would have slept then, I would have been at rest,
14 With akings and with bcounselors of the earth, Who rebuilt cruins for themselves;
15 Or with aprinces bwho had gold, Who were filling their houses with silver.
16 "Or like a miscarriage which is discarded, I would not be, As infants that never saw light.
17 "There the wicked cease from raging, And there the weary are at arest.
18 "The prisoners are at ease together; They do not hear the voice of the taskmaster.
19 "The small and the great are there, And the slave is free from his master.
20 "Why is alight given to him who suffers, And life to the bitter of soul,
21 Who along for death, but there is none, And dig for it more than for bhidden treasures,
22 Who rejoice greatly, And exult when they find the grave?

Ecclesiastes 6

3 If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he does not even have a proper aburial, then I say, "Better bthe miscarriage than he,

Luke 23

29 "For behold, the days are coming when they will say, 'aBlessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bore, and the breasts that never nursed.'