The Better Lot of One Stillborn
This article by Thomas Miersma offers an exegetical study of Ecclesiastes 6:3-5, using Solomon's striking comparison between a covetous man and a stillborn child to warn young people against the bondage of materialism and covetousness. The exposition emphasizes how true contentment and joy come only through God's sovereign grace, not through the accumulation of worldly riches, making it relevant for understanding Reformed perspectives on Christian contentment and the fear of God.
Previous article in this series: December 1, 2014, p. 106. 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. For he cometh in with vanity, and departeth in darkness, and his name shall be covered with darkness. Moreover he hath not seen the sun, not known any thing: this hath more rest than the other. Ecclesiastes 6:3-5 It may be...
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