Ecclesiastes 4:3
And happier than both of these, I judged him to be, who has not yet been born, and who has not yet seen the evils which are done under the sun.
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2And so, I praised the dead more than the living.
Cross References
Job 3:16or, like a hidden miscarriage, I should not have continued, just like those who, being conceived, have not seen the light.
Job 10:18Why did you lead me out of the womb? If only I had been consumed, so that no eye would ever see me!
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all that is done under the sun, and behold: all is emptiness and an affliction of the spirit.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man were to produce one hundred children, and to live for many years, and to attain to an age of many days, and if his soul were to make no use of the goods of his resources, and if he were lacking even a burial: concerning such a man, I declare that a miscarried child is better than he.
Jeremiah 9:2Who will provide me, in the wilderness, with a lodging place along the road? And then I will forsake my people, and withdraw from them. For they are all adulterers, a union of transgressors.
Matthew 24:19So then, woe to those who are pregnant or nursing 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 →