Ecclesiastes 4:2

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Ecclesiastes 4:2

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Berean Standard Bible

So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.

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KJV

King James Version

Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

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WEB

World English Bible

Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

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ASV

American Standard Version

Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

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Ecclesiastes 4

¹ Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

² So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.

³ But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

⁴ I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

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