Passage cross-references.

For, behold, the days are coming, in the which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the paps which never gave suck.

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. …

And woe unto them that are with child, and to them that give suck in those days!

Because it shut not up the doors of my mother’s womb, nor hid sorrow from mine eyes. …

Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?

Wherefore then hast thou brought me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had given up the ghost, and no eye had seen me! …

And I said, Oh that I had wings like a dove! for then would I fly away, and be at rest. …

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun is grievous unto me: for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they be all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men. …

Because he slew me not from the womb; or that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb to be always great with me. …

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.