Ecclesiastes 4:3
However, more fortunate than both of them is the one who has not yet lived, 2 the one who has not seen any of the evil acts that are done under the sun.
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2So I considered those who are already dead 2 more fortunate than the living, who are still alive. 1
Cross References
Job 3:16Or perhaps I would have been stillborn, 1 like infants that never see the light. 1
Job 10:18Why, then, have you brought me out of the womb? 1 I wish I had given up my spirit and that no eye had ever seen me. 1
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the deeds that are done under the sun, and look, they all amount to vapor and chasing the wind. 1
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man fathers a hundred children and lives many years, so that the days of his years are many, but if his heart is not satisfied with good and he is not buried, then I say that a baby that is born dead is better off than he is.
Jeremiah 9:2If only someone would give me a place for travelers in the wilderness to stay, where I could go to abandon my people. 1 If only I could leave them, since all of them are adulterers, a band of traitors! 1
Matthew 24:19But woe to those who are with child and to those who are nursing infants 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 →