King James Version (KJV)
Ecclesiastes 4:3
“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.”
Verse in context — Ecclesiastes 4
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.
Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
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.
Again, I considered all travail, and every right work, that for this a man is envied of his neighbour. This [is] also vanity and vexation of spirit.
The fool foldeth his hands together, and eateth his own flesh.
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