2006-07-23 12:16:05 · 10 answers · asked by edward b 3 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
The closest I can find is Job 3. Job rather graphically curses the day he was born and insists that, had he died at birth, he would have been much better off.
2006-07-23 12:33:05 · answer #1 · answered by Suzanne: YPA 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It does not say that anywhere in the Bible unless this is taken out of context, but I do not recall such phrasiology in the Bible. The only thing I see similar to that is in Ecclesiastes 4:
1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold the tears of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
3Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This is also vanity and vexation of spirit.
The Book of Ecclesiastes is a book of the philosophy of Solomon, it follows his book on Ethics (Proverbs), and subsequent to that is his book of aesthetics (a love poem, which is called Song of Solomon, also co-written by Pharaoh's daughter)
There is a passage when King David is weeping because his first child from Bath Sheba was dieing, and he was fasting and vexing himself. Because he was hoping God would be mercifull and keep him alive; then his servants feared to tell him when the child died, because if he acts like this when the child is alive what will he do when the child is dead. But when he perceived from their murmering that the child had died, he changed his reignment and did eat and made himself to be at ease, because now he knew the child is with the Lord.
Dave
2006-07-23 19:36:29 · answer #2 · answered by David L 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I can't think of any place these two ideas appear together.
David wept when his baby was born because he knew God was going to kill it as a punishment for David's sin.
There are many instances in which people rejoice over their fallen enemies, and most Christians see what Jesus' death accomplished as something to rejoice in. However, I don't know of any contradiction or proverb with these two ideas in one passage.
2006-07-23 19:35:26 · answer #3 · answered by chdoctor 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Eccl. 7:1 A lifetime of making a name to God is better than the day of ones birth.
2006-07-23 19:23:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
When you were born, you cried and the world rejoiced. Live your life so that when you die, the world cries and you rejoice.
- Cherokee Expression
2006-07-23 19:31:47 · answer #5 · answered by Peace 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The Bible says so many contradictory things that it probably sys that too if you look hard enough.
2006-07-23 19:19:49 · answer #6 · answered by tammers 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because when you are born,you are born into a world of sin,but when you die if you have been saved by gods grace,then you are going to heaven
2006-07-23 19:44:59 · answer #7 · answered by Chelsea_16 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Haha sounds like theirs another whos a little more contradictory.....
2006-07-23 19:24:00 · answer #8 · answered by Michael C 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
it is actually not in the bible it is a chinese saying. Sorry you got the wrong source but the quote is accurate. :-)
2006-07-23 19:30:59 · answer #9 · answered by oph_chad 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
How is that contradictory?
2006-07-23 19:21:05 · answer #10 · answered by John 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋