3If 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.
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Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the skull, and the feet, and the palms of her hands.
He shall be buried with the burial of an ass, drawn and cast forth beyond the gates of Jerusalem.
Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
But thou art cast out of thy grave like an abominable branch, and as the raiment of those that are slain, thrust through with a sword, that go down to the stones of the pit; as a carcase trodden under feet. …
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Matthew Henry’s Complete Commentary on the Bible (1710)
(vv. 1-6)Solomon had shown, in the close of the foregoing chapter, how good it is to make a comfortable use of the gifts of God’s providence; now here he shows the evil of the contrary, having and not using, gathering to lay up for I know not what contingent emergencies to come, not to lay out on the most urgent occasions present. This is an evil which Solomon himself saw under the sun , Eccl. 6:1. A great…
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