Ecclesiastes 6:3 - Ellicott's Commentary On The Whole Bible

Bible Comments

That a man should be so occupied in the pursuit of riches as never to take any enjoyment from them is a common experience enough; but that the same man should have no sepulchre to preserve his name after him need not necessarily happen, so that one is tempted to think that the Preacher has some actual occurrence in his mind.

Untimely birth. — See references. We have just had another reminiscence of the Book of Job. (See Ecclesiastes 5:15.)

Ecclesiastes 6:3

3 If 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.