Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

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

More versions

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

So I hated life; because the work that is wrought under the sun was grievous unto me: for all is vanity and a striving after wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A Good name is better than precious ointment; and the day of death than the day of one's birth.

Jeremiah 22:10

Weep ye not for the dead, neither bemoan him: but weep sore for him that goeth away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.