Ecclesiastes 4:2

Modern English Version

And I thought that the dead, who had already died, were more fortunate than the living, who were still alive.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I began to hate life, because the labor that was done under the sun was contemptible to me, for all of this is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than precious oil, and the day of one’s death than one’s birth.

Jeremiah 22:10

Do not weep for the dead nor bemoan him, but weep constantly for him who goes away; for he will return no more nor see his native country.