Jamieson-Fausset-Brown on Ecclesiastes 6:3
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3. Even if a man (of this character) have very many (equivalent to "a hundred," :- ) children, and not have a "stranger" as his heir ( Ecclesiastes 6:2 ), and live long ("days of years" express the brevity of life at its best, Genesis 47:9 ), yet enjoy no real "good" in life, and lie unhonored, without "burial," at death ( 2 Kings 9:26 ; 2 Kings 9:35 ), 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]. return to ' Top of Page ' <a name="verse-4" class="com-number"
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