Ecclesiastes 4:3
Yes, better is he than both they, who hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
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2Wherefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.
Cross References
Job 3:16Or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been; as infants which never saw light.
Job 10:18Why then hast thou brought me forth from the womb? O that I had expired, and no eye had seen me!
Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and behold, all is vanity and vexation of spirit.
Ecclesiastes 6:3If a man begetteth a hundred children , and liveth many years, so that the days of his years are many, and his soul is not filled with good, and also that he hath no burial; I say, that an untimely birth is better than he.
Jeremiah 9:2Oh that I had in the wilderness a lodging-place of way-faring men; that I might leave my people, and go from them! for they are all adulterers, an assembly of treacherous men.
Matthew 24:19And woe to them that are with child, and to them that nurse 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 →