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Ecclesiastes 4:3

American Standard Version

yea, 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.

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Ecclesiastes 4:3 in other translations

Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:3 · World English Bible

Ecclesiastes 4:3 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.
  5. 5The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.