Ecclesiastes 6:3
Meaning, cross-references, and a prayer for Ecclesiastes 6:3 — by Collins Asein
Quick Summary
Ecclesiastes 6:3 is a verse from the book of Ecclesiastes in the Old Testament. The KJV reads: "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 fill..." Below you will find the full verse text, cross-references, meaning, and a prayer based on this scripture.
Ecclesiastes 6:3 — KJV
“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 (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 6:3 in Context — About the Book of Ecclesiastes
Ecclesiastes is the Bible's most unflinching look at life under the sun — wealth, pleasure, work, and wisdom all tested and found fleeting. Its honesty disarms cynics, then lands on bedrock: fear God, keep His commands, and receive each ordinary day as His gift.
Cross-References for Ecclesiastes 6:3
“And I will say to my soul, Soul, thou hast much goods laid up for many years; take thine ease, eat, drink, and be merry.”
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“There is nothing better for a man, than that he should eat and drink, and that he should make his soul enjoy good in his labour. This also I saw, that it was from the hand of God. should make...: or, delight his senses”
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“And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.”
Shares key themes with Ecclesiastes 6:3: hundred, live, years
“And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years.”
Shares key themes with Ecclesiastes 6:3: hundred, years, days
“And these are the days of the years of Abraham's life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.”
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