Ecclesiastes 4:3
And better than both of them [is] he who has not yet been, in that he has not seen the evil work that has been done under the sun.
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2And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.
Cross References
Job 3:16(Or I am not as a hidden abortion, || As infants—they have not seen light.)
Job 10:18And why from the womb || Have You brought me forth? I expire, and the eye does not see me.
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that have been done under the sun, and behold, the whole [is] vanity and distress of spirit!
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man begets one hundred, and lives many years, and is great, because they are the days of his years, and his soul is not satisfied from the goodness, and also he has not had a grave, I have said, “Better than he [is] the untimely birth.”
Jeremiah 9:2Who gives me in a wilderness || A lodging-place for travelers? And I leave my people, and go from them, || For all of them [are] adulterers, || An assembly of treacherous ones.
Matthew 24:19And woe to those with child, and to those giving 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 →