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Ecclesiastes 4:2
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
Ecclesiastes 4:2 · World English Bible
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Ecclesiastes 4:2 in other translations
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
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In context
1 Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2 Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
3 Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
5 The fool folds his hands together and ruins himself.
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