Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Douy-Rheims Bible Challoner Revision

² It is better therefore that two should be together, than one: for they have the advantage of their society:

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² So I praised and thought more fortunate those who have been long dead than the living, who are still alive.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

Common English Bible

² So I declare that the dead, who have already died, are more fortunate than the living, who are still alive.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And so, I praised the dead more than the living.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And I praised the dead rather than the living:

Ecclesiastes 4:2 Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:17

4 Is it not better to eat and drink, and to shew his soul good things of his labours? and this is from the hand of God.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

Better is the end of a speech than the beginning. Better is the patient man than the presumptuous.

Jeremiah 22:10

8 Therefore thus saith the Lord concerning Joakim the son of Josias king of Juda: They shall not mourn for him, Alas, my brother, and Alas, sister: they shall not lament for him, Alas, my Lord, or, Alas, the noble one.