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Ecclesiastes 4:2

American Standard Version

Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

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Ecclesiastes 4:2 in other translations

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:2 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:2 in context

  1. 1Then I returned and saw 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.
  2. 2Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;
  3. 3yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
  4. 4Then I saw all labor and every skilful work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.