Ecclesiastes 6:3
Parallel Strong's
Berean Study Bible
A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.

Young's Literal Translation
If a man doth beget a hundred, and live many years, and is great{.htm" title="{">, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he hath not had a grave, I have said, ‘Better than he [is] the untimely birth.’

King James Bible
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.

Hebrew
A man
אִ֣ישׁ (’îš)
Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 376: A man as an individual, a male person

may father
יוֹלִ֣יד (yō·w·lîḏ)
Verb - Hifil - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 3205: To bear young, to beget, medically, to act as midwife, to show lineage

a hundred [children]
מֵאָ֡ה (mê·’āh)
Number - feminine singular
Strong's 3967: A hundred

and live
יִֽחְיֶ֜ה (yiḥ·yeh)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person masculine singular
Strong's 2421: To live, to revive

for many
רַבּ֨וֹת (rab·bō·wṯ)
Adjective - feminine plural
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

years;
וְשָׁנִים֩ (wə·šā·nîm)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine plural
Strong's 8141: A year

yet no matter how long
וְרַ֣ב ׀ (wə·raḇ)
Conjunctive waw | Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 7227: Much, many, great

he lives,
יְמֵֽי־ (yə·mê-)
Noun - masculine plural construct
Strong's 3117: A day

if he
וְנַפְשׁוֹ֙ (wə·nap̄·šōw)
Conjunctive waw | Noun - feminine singular construct | third person masculine singular
Strong's 5315: A soul, living being, life, self, person, desire, passion, appetite, emotion

is unsatisfied
תִשְׂבַּ֣ע (ṯiś·ba‘)
Verb - Qal - Imperfect - third person feminine singular
Strong's 7646: To be sated, satisfied or surfeited

with
מִן־ (min-)
Preposition
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

his prosperity
הַטּוֹבָ֔ה (haṭ·ṭō·w·ḇāh)
Article | Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

and does not
לֹא־ (lō-)
Adverb - Negative particle
Strong's 3808: Not, no

even
וְגַם־ (wə·ḡam-)
Conjunctive waw | Conjunction
Strong's 1571: Assemblage, also, even, yea, though, both, and

receive a proper burial,
קְבוּרָ֖ה (qə·ḇū·rāh)
Noun - feminine singular
Strong's 6900: Sepulture, a sepulchre

I say
אָמַ֕רְתִּי (’ā·mar·tî)
Verb - Qal - Perfect - first person common singular
Strong's 559: To utter, say

that a stillborn child
הַנָּֽפֶל׃ (han·nā·p̄el)
Article | Noun - masculine singular
Strong's 5309: Something fallen, an abortion

is better off
ט֥וֹב (ṭō·wḇ)
Adjective - masculine singular
Strong's 2896: Pleasant, agreeable, good

than he.
מִמֶּ֖נּוּ (mim·men·nū)
Preposition | third person masculine singular
Strong's 4480: A part of, from, out of

                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                           
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