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Some people may have one hundred children and live a long life. But no matter how long they live, if they aren’t content with life’s good things, I say that even a stillborn child with no grave is better off than they are.[a] Because that child arrives pointlessly, then passes away in darkness. Darkness covers its name. It hasn’t seen the sun or experienced anything. But it has more peace than those

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  1. Ecclesiastes 6:3 Correction; Heb puts the lack of burial site with those who do not enjoy life's good things.

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