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New American Standard Bible 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,
King James BibleIf 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.
Holman Christian Standard BibleA man may father a hundred children and live many years. No matter how long he lives, if he is not satisfied by good things and does not even have a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.
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Genesis 33:5 And he lifted up his eyes, and saw the women and the children; and …
1 Samuel 2:20,21 And Eli blessed Elkanah and his wife, and said, The LORD give you …
2 Kings 10:1 And Ahab had seventy sons in Samaria. And Jehu wrote letters, and …
1 Chronicles 28:5 And of all my sons…
2 Chronicles 11:21 And Rehoboam loved Maachah the daughter of Absalom above all his …
Esther 5:11 And Haman told them of the glory of his riches, and the multitude …
Psalm 127:4,5 As arrows are in the hand of a mighty man; so are children of the youth…
Proverbs 17:6 Children's children are the crown of old men; and the glory of children …
Genesis 47:9 And Jacob said to Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage …
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2 Kings 9:35 And they went to bury her: but they found no more of her than the …
Esther 7:10 So they hanged Haman on the gallows that he had prepared for Mordecai. …
Esther 9:14,15 And the king commanded it so to be done: and the decree was given …
Isaiah 14:19,20 But you are cast out of your grave like an abominable branch, and …
Jeremiah 22:19 He shall be buried with the burial of an donkey, drawn and cast forth …
Jeremiah 36:30 Therefore thus said the LORD of Jehoiakim king of Judah; He shall …
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Ecclesiastes 4:3 Yes, better is he than both they, which has not yet been, who has …
Job 3:16 Or as an hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Psalm 58:8 As a snail which melts, let every one of them pass away: like the …
Matthew 26:24 The Son of man goes as it is written of him…
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