3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.
If a man beget an hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, and his soul be not filled with good, and also that he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he. …
And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!
Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! …
Because it shut not up the doors of my mother's womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. …
Commentary
Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-3)Solomon had a large soul (1 Kgs. 4:29) and it appeared by this, among other things, that he had a very tender concern for the miserable part of mankind and took cognizance of the afflictions of the afflicted. He had taken the oppressors to task ( Eccl. 3:16 , 17 ) and put them in mind of the judgment to come, to be a curb to their insolence; now here he observes the oppressed. This he did, no doub…
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