Ecclesiastes 6:3-5

Douay-Rheims 1899 American Edition

³ If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.

⁴ For he came in vain, and goeth to darkness, and his name shall be wholly forgotten.

⁵ He hath not seen the sun, nor known the distance of good and evil: