Charles Ellicott Commentary Ecclesiastes 6:3

"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)

That a man should be so occupied in the pursuit of riches as never to take any enjoyment from them is a common enough experience; but that the same man should have no tomb 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 .