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Ecclesiastes 4:2

WEB

2Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.

KJV

2Wherefore I praised[+] the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

BSB

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

FBV

2I congratulated those who were already dead, for the dead are better off than those who are still alive and being oppressed.

Extra References

Job 3:11-26

11“Why didn’t I die from the womb? Why didn’t I give up the spirit when my mother bore me? 12Why did the knees receive me? Or why the breast, that I should nurse? 13For now I should have lain down and been quiet. I should have slept, then I would have been at rest, 14with kings and counselors of the earth, who built up waste places for themselves; 15or with princes who had gold, who filled their houses with silver; 16or as a hidden untimely birth I had not been, as infants who never saw light. 17There the wicked cease from troubling. There the weary are at rest. 18There the prisoners are at ease together. They don’t hear the voice of the taskmaster. 19The small and the great are there. The servant is free from his master. 20“Why is light given to him who is in misery, life to the bitter in soul, 21who long for death, but it doesn’t come; and dig for it more than for hidden treasures, 22who rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave? 23Why is light given to a man whose way is hidden, whom God has hedged in? 24For my sighing comes before I eat. My groanings are poured out like water. 25For the thing which I fear comes on me, that which I am afraid of comes to me. 26I am not at ease, neither am I quiet, neither do I have rest; but trouble comes.”

Ecclesiastes 2:17

17So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me; for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 9:4-6

4For to him who is joined with all the living there is hope; for a living dog is better than a dead lion. 5For the living know that they will die, but the dead don’t know anything, neither do they have any more a reward; for their memory is forgotten. 6Also their love, their hatred, and their envy has perished long ago; neither do they any longer have a portion forever in anything that is done under the sun.