Ecclesiastes 4:3
and more fortunate than both is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Darby Translation
In The King James Version
In Context
2Then I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive;
Cross References
Job 3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants that have not seen the light.
Job 10:18And wherefore didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? I had expired, 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 pursuit of the wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred [sons], and live many years, so that the days of his years be many, but his soul be not filled with good, and also he have no burial, I say an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a traveller's lodging-place, that I might leave my people, and go away from them! For they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Matthew 24:19But woe to those that are with child, and those that give suck 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 →