Ecclesiastes 4:3 - Revised Version with Apocrypha 1895

³ yea, better than them both did I esteem him which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

More versions

King James Version (Oxford) 1769

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.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

³ But better than them both [I thought] is he who has not yet been born, who has not seen the evil deeds that are done under the sun.

American Standard Version (1901)

³ yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

Common English Bible

³ But happier than both are those who have never existed, who haven’t witnessed the terrible things that happen under the sun.

Catholic Public Domain Version

³ And happier than both of these, I judged him to be, who has not yet been born, and who has not yet seen the evils which are done under the sun.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

³ And I judged him happier than them both, that is not yet born, nor hath seen the evils that are done under the sun.

Ecclesiastes 4:3 Cross References

Job 3:22

Which rejoice exceedingly, And are glad, when they can find the grave?

Ecclesiastes 1:14

I have seen all the works that are done under the sun; and, behold, all is vanity and a striving after wind.

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.

Matthew 24:19

But woe unto them that are with child and to them that give suck in those days!

Luke 23:29

For behold, the days are coming, in which they shall say, Blessed are the barren, and the wombs that never bare, and the breasts that never gave suck.