Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Revised Version 1885

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

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

So I praised and thought more fortunate those who have been long dead than the living, who are still alive.

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

So I declare that the dead, who have already died, are more fortunate than the living, who are still alive.

And so, I praised the dead more than the living.

And I praised the dead rather than the living: