Ecclesiastes 4:3
And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.
Douay-Rheims 1899
In The King James Version
In Context
2And I praised the dead rather than the living:
Cross References
Job 3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I should not be, or as they that being conceived have not seen the light.
Job 10:18Why didst thou bring me forth out of the womb: O that I had been consumed that eye might not see me!
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all things that are done under the sun, and behold all is vanity, and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man beget a hundred children, and live many years, and attain to a great age, and his soul make no use of the goods of his substance, and he be without burial: of this man I pronounce, that the untimely born is better than he.
Jeremiah 9:2Who will give me in the wilderness a lodging place of wayfaring men, and I will leave my people, and depart from them? because they are all adulterers, an assembly of transgressors.
Matthew 24:19And woe to them that are with child, and 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 →