Ecclesiastes 4:3

Old Testament · SCRIPTURE

Ecclesiastes 4:3

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Berean Standard Bible

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

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KJV

King James Version

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.

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WEB

World English Bible

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.

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ASV

American Standard Version

yea, better than them both [did I esteem] him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

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READ IN CONTEXT · BSB

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.

⁵ The fool folds his hands and consumes his own flesh.

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