Ecclesiastes 4:2

Revised Version 1885

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

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.