Ecclesiastes 4:2 - New Revised Standard Version

And I thought the dead, who have already died, more fortunate than the living, who are still alive;

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

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

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

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

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

And I praised the dead rather than the living:

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

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

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.

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