In Ecclesiastes, chapter six, verses three to six, “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, nor known any thing: this hath more rest than the other. Yea, though he live a thousand years twice told, yet hath he seen no good: do not all go to one place?”
Death at an early age is sad. However, long life does not guarantee that a person will enjoy what God has given them. A life filled with trouble makes people wish they had died at birth and avoided all this suffering, as in Job chapter three. In the light of eternity, the main thing is whether we live our lives for God, as in Ecclesiastes twelve, verses thirteen through fourteen, “Let us hear the conclusion of the whole matter: Fear God, and keep his commandments: for this is the whole duty of man. For God shall bring every work into judgment, with every secret thing, whether it be good, or whether it be evil.”
Today, we know babies become kids. Then kids become teens, then young adults, become grown-ups, and then elderly. However, it is the environment in which they develop during each stage that will impact their character and behavior toward others. The Israelites who came out of Egypt in the Exodus, chapter fourteen, began to murmur in chapter sixteen, verse three of Exodus. Do the people of God know what is happening?