Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yea, better than both of them is he who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work which is done under the sun.
Noyes Bible
In The King James Version
In Context
2Therefore I praised the dead, who have been long ago dead, more than the living, who are yet alive.
Cross References
Job 3:16Or, as a hidden untimely birth, I had perished; As infants which never saw the light.
Job 10:18Why then didst thou bring me forth from the womb? I should have perished, and no eye had seen me;
Ecclesiastes 1:14I saw all the things which are done under the sun; and, behold, it was all vanity, and striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 6:3Though a man have a hundred children, and live many years, and though the days of his years be many, if his soul be not satisfied with good, and he have no burial, I say that an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 9:2O that I had a traveller's lodge in the wilderness, That I might leave my people, and go from them! For they are all adulterers; An assembly of revolters.
Matthew 24:19And woe to the women with child, and to those with children at the breast, 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 →