Ecclesiastes 4:2
“Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more then the liuing which are yet aliue.”
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Ecclesiastes 4:2 Context
1So I returned, and considered all the oppressions that are done vnder the sunne; & behold the teares of such as were oppressed, and they had no comforter: and on the side of their oppressours there was power, but they had no comforter. 2Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead, more then the liuing which are yet aliue. 3Yea better is he then both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seene the euill worke that is done vnder the Sunne. 4¶ Againe I considered all trauaile, and euery right worke, that for this a man is enuied of his neighbour: this is also vanitie, and vexation of spirit.
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Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
- King James Version
So I congratulated the dead who are already dead more than the living who are still living.
- New American Standard Version (1995)