Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yea, better than them both [is] him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
A Conservative Version
In The King James Version
In Context
2Therefore I praised the dead who have long been dead more than the living who are yet alive.
Cross References
Job 3:16Or I should have been as a hidden untimely birth, as infants that never saw light.
Job 10:18Why then have thou brought me forth out of the womb? I would have given up the spirit, and no eye had seen me.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun, and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man begets a hundred sons, and lives many years so that the days of his years are many, but his soul is not filled with good, and moreover he has no burial, I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of wayfaring men, that I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Matthew 24:19And woe to those who have in the womb and to those who suckle in those days.
Matthew Henry on Ecclesiastes 4:2-4
The Prevalence of Oppression. 1 So I returned, and considered 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 Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive. 3 Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun. Solomon had a large soul ( 1 Kings… Read the whole commentary →