Ecclesiastes 4:2

And Y preiside more deed men than lyuynge men;

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In The King James Version

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

In Context

1I turnede me to othere thingis, and Y siy fals chalengis, that ben don vndur the sunne, and the teeris of innocentis, and no man coumfortour; and that thei forsakun of the help of alle men, moun not ayenstonde the violence of hem.

3and Y demyde hym, that was not borun yit, and siy not the yuels that ben don vndur the sunne, to be blisfulere than euer eithir.

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Cross References

Job 3:11Whi was not Y deed in the wombe? whi yede Y out of the wombe, and perischide not anoon?

Job 3:21Whiche abiden deeth, and it cometh not;

Ecclesiastes 2:17And therfor it anoiede me of my lijf, seynge that alle thingis vndur sunne ben yuele, and that alle thingis ben vanyte and turment of the spirit.

Ecclesiastes 9:4No man is, that lyueth euere, and that hath trist of this thing; betere is a quik dogge than a deed lioun.

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