Ecclesiastes 4:3
And as happier than both of them, him who hath not yet come into being, who hath not seen the evil-doing that is done under the sun.—
Leeser Tanakh
In The King James Version
In Context
2Thereupon praised I the dead that are already dead, more than the living who are still alive;
Cross References
Job 3:16Or as an untimely birth, hidden [from view] I should not exist; as infants that never have seen the light;
Job 10:18Wherefore then didst thou bring me forth out of the womb? Oh that I had perished, and that no eye had seen me!
Ecclesiastes 1:14I saw all the deeds that are done under the sun: and, behold, all is vanity and a torture of the spirit.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man were to beget a hundred children, and live many years, so that the days of his years were many, and his soul were not satisfied with what is good, and he have not had even a burial: then do I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 9:2(9:1) Oh that one would place me in the wilderness in a lodging-place of wayfaring men. that I might leave my people, and go from them! for all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors.
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 →