Ecclesiastes 6:3
Holman Christian Standard Bible
3 A man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives,[a] if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial,(A) I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.(B)
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- Ecclesiastes 6:3 Lit how many years
Ecclesiastes 6:3
New International Version
3 A man may have a hundred children and live many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he cannot enjoy his prosperity and does not receive proper burial, I say that a stillborn(A) child is better off than he.(B)
Ecclesiastes 6:3
King James Version
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.
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Luke 23:29
Holman Christian Standard Bible
29 Look, the days are coming(A) when they will say, ‘The women without children, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed, are fortunate!’(B)
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Luke 23:29
New International Version
29 For the time will come when you will say, ‘Blessed are the childless women, the wombs that never bore and the breasts that never nursed!’(A)
Luke 23:29
King James Version
29 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.
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