Ecclesiastes 6
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Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, however many they may be, but his soul is not satisfied with good things and he is not respected and is not given a proper burial [he is not laid to rest in the sepulcher of his fathers], then I say, “Better the miscarriage than he,

4for the miscarriage comes in futility (in vain) and passes into obscurity; and its name is covered in obscurity.

5It has not seen the sun nor had any knowledge; yet it has more rest and is better off than he.

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