Ecclesiastes 4:2 - New Revised Standard Version Updated Edition 2021

² And I commended the dead, who have already died, more than the living, who are still alive,

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King James Version (Oxford) 1769

² Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Amplified Bible - Classic Edition

² So I praised and thought more fortunate those who have been long dead than the living, who are still alive.

American Standard Version (1901)

² Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;

Common English Bible

² So I declare that the dead, who have already died, are more fortunate than the living, who are still alive.

Catholic Public Domain Version

² And so, I praised the dead more than the living.

Douay-Rheims version of The Bible - 1752 version

² And I praised the dead rather than the living:

Ecclesiastes 4:2 Références croisées

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life because what is done under the sun was grievous to me, for all is vanity and a chasing after wind.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is better than precious ointment, and the day of death, than the day of birth.

Jeremiah 22:10

Do not weep for him who is dead, nor bemoan him; weep rather for him who goes away, for he shall return no more to see his native land.