ecclesiastes 6:3 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.

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] burial, [then] I say, "Better the miscarriage than he,

3. Even if a man (of this character) have very many (equivalent to "a hundred," 2Ki 10:1) children, and not have a "stranger" as his heir (Ec 6:2), and live long ("days of years" express the brevity of life at its best, Ge 47:9), yet enjoy no real "good" in life, and lie unhonored, without "burial," at death (2Ki 9:26, 35), the embryo is better than he. In the East to be without burial is the greatest degradation. "Better the fruit that drops from the tree before it is ripe than that left to hang on till rotten" [HENRY].

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] burial, [then] I say, "Better the miscarriage than he,

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