Ecclesiastes 4:2

Bible in Basic English 1965

So my praise was for the dead who have gone to their death, more than for the living who still have life.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I was hating life, because everything under the sun was evil to me: all is to no purpose and desire for wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than oil of great price, and the day of death than the day of birth.

Jeremiah 22:10

Let there be no weeping for the dead, and make no songs of grief for him: but make bitter weeping for him who has gone away, for he will never come back or see again the country of his birth.