Albert Barnes Commentary Ecclesiastes 6:3

Albert Barnes Commentary

Ecclesiastes 6:3

1798–1870
Presbyterian
Albert Barnes
Albert Barnes

Albert Barnes Commentary

Ecclesiastes 6:3

1798–1870
Presbyterian
SCRIPTURE

"If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years are many, but his soul be not filled with good, and moreover he have no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he:" — Ecclesiastes 6:3 (ASV)

No burial - For a corpse to lie unburied was a circumstance in itself of special ignominy and dishonor (compare the marginal references).