Ecclesiastes 4:2

Young's Literal Translation 1898

And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.

Cross References

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And I have hated life, for sad to me is the work that hath been done under the sun, for the whole is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

Better is a name than good perfume, And the day of death than the day of birth.

Jeremiah 22:10

Ye do not weep for the dead, nor bemoan for him, Weep ye sore for the traveller, For he doth not return again, Nor hath he seen the land of his birth.