I was reading the Bible and I came across this scripture. I fully dont get the meaning of it?

No, if someone follows Christ, they are a Christian and according to that scripture, a Christian would not celebrate a birthday. The only two places birthdays are mentioned in the Bible there was murder for the celebration. First was Pharaoh's baker and the other was John the Baptizer.

The succeeding verses [Ecclesiastes 7:2-29] described understandably the useless celebration of birthdays and the meaning of 'good name is better than a good ointment' and the day of ones death is better than the day of one's birth. Similarly, the day of birth of the Lord Jesus was not given nor written in the Holy Scriptures/Bible but the death of the Lord was described fully because there is resurrection of the death as promised by God. Christ was actually born or possessed from everlasting by the LORD God the Father before the beginning of the LORD's way before His works of old, even before the first dust of the world was made. [Proverbs 8:22, 24-25]. But what is precious and significant in the sight of God the LORD is the death of His godly ones [Psalm 116:15], like the Lord Jesus Christ who is resurrected. The same will also happen to the servants/friends of the Lord Jesus Christ, or the real Christians.

“A name is better than good oil, and the day of death than the day of one’s being born.” (Ecclesiastes 7:1) How could the day of death, a mournful time if ever there was one, be better than the joyful day of birth? The key is in the “name.” “Good oil” could be enormously costly. Lazarus’ sister Mary once greased Jesus’ feet with perfumed oil that cost nearly a year’s wages! (John 12:1-7) How could a mere name be so precious? At Ecclesiastes 7:1, the Greek Septuagint says, “a good name.” It is not merely the name but what it stands for that is so valuable. At his birth, there is no reputation, no record of fine works, no treasured memory of the name bearer’s personality and qualities. But at life’s end, the name signifies all these things. And if it is a good name from God’s standpoint, it is far more precious than any material possessions could ever be.

This scripture helps us to see that the day of one's death is better than their day of birth because hopefully they have made a name with God. Actually, celebrating birthdays is not approved by God. Birthday celebrations have spiritistic and pagan roots. Also, the Bible only mentions two birthday celebrations and on both occasions, something awful happened. The Bible put birthday celebrations in a bad light which gives us a glimpse of how Almighty God feels about them. Also, there is no record of Jesus birthday found in the Bible, so that means it wasn't important. However, the Bible tells us what day he died and that we should commemorate his death every year. Thus, Jesus death was more important than his birth. The same thing applies to us .

Your question is downright dishonest! As a JW you are already convinced you know the meaning of that text, so stop pretending to be some ignorant person looking for answers.

Your question is an example of the kinds of self-serving dishonesty that JWs on this forum resort to. This is a sham question. You are shamelessly abusing the forum to give your JW cohorts a platform to preach in sly.

If you want to ask a question to bring out a point then just ask the question. There's no need to deceitfully pretend to be what you're not.

Here is an excerpt from an article entitled "Celebrations that Displease God":

9 Even though the birth of a baby has always been a cause for much joy, the Bible makes no reference to a birthday celebration for a servant of God. (Psalm 127:3) Was this simply an oversight? No, for two birthday celebrations are mentioned—that of a Pharaoh of Egypt and that of Herod Antipas. (Genesis 40:20-22; Mark 6:21-29) Both events, however, are presented in a bad light—especially the latter, which saw John the Baptizer beheaded.

There is much more information in the rest of the article and the scripture you are asking about is in paragraph 12.

http://m.wol.jw.org/en/wol/d/r1/lp-e/1102008072?q=birthdays&p=par

it means to have a better standing before God.

the day a human is born is less important compared to the day of death, because a baby has done nothing yet but till the day of death there is a lot of time passing with the human doing alot of good deeds. the good deeds are then what make that humans name a good name that is like good oil, meaning a better standing before God. the God standing before God is finaly at the fleshly death when the Soul is in heaven. the first sentence on top is supposed to sum all that up.

You have to read all Solomon's work to best understand - esp. Ecclesiastes where he says over and over that life without God is utterly meaningless and nothing but a major hassle. And Solomon had everything a man could want - money, powere, women, you name it.

Death delivers us from all this hopeless tragedy

Read some of these to set the tone

Ecc 1:2 “Everything is meaningless,” says the Teacher, “completely meaningless!”

Ecc 1:14 I observed everything going on under the sun, and really, it is all meaningless—like chasing the wind.

Ecc 2:1 I said to myself, “Come on, let’s try pleasure. Let’s look for the ‘good things’ in life.” But I found that this, too, was meaningless.

Ecc 2:11 But as I looked at everything I had worked so hard to accomplish, it was all so meaningless—like chasing the wind. There was nothing really worthwhile anywhere.

Ecc 2:15 Both will die. So I said to myself, “Since I will end up the same as the fool, what’s the value of all my wisdom? This is all so meaningless!”

more here

http://www.blbclassic.org/search/translationResult...

It has a deeper more profound meaning, than simply celebrating birthdays. Similar to the book of Proverbs these demonstrate and also supports the wise approach to life. "Mourning and Sorrow" are better than " Feasting and laughter" because they cause a man to reflect wisely on the brevity of life. Both good and bad days are the work of God and are used, apart from our ability to understand them, in God's sovereign plan. Similar to the understanding of what Job eventually found out about Almighty God at the end of his life. Just remember what Solomon said in Ecclesiastes 1: 12-14:

"The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.

V2:"Vanity of vanities, saith the Preacher, vanity of vanities: all is vanity.

V3:What profit hath a man of all his labor which he taketh under the sun.

V4:"One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth forever."

Here the tone is set, for your verse. This vanity can be termed 'futility' in light of the curse put on Adam and Eve and the human race, the earth is dying and true birth, is when we meet God, because as we enter into the world of suffering and pain, death is like a relief. So, Jesus also said, blessed are they that mourn, for they shall be comforted. Man cannot fully enjoy "life" because of the cloud of "death" both spiritual and physical, due to the curse or punishment, and Jesus Christ does this for us on the cross. However, the earthly life is more fruitful for which Christians, looks towards calling Jesus our 'Blessed Hope", this world is not our home, and we just live for eternity, in this world, or or less.

It is easy to make a baby, Jehovah said, go forth and have children. Not so much an accomplishment.

Dying imperfect and making a good name with God. Priceless.

Look at Adam, Jehovah isn't bragging over that. Sure it was good and Adam was perfect.

He didn't die with a good name.