Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Hebrew Names version (HNV)

² Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet 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.

Ecclesiastes 4:2 Tagairtí Cros

Ecclesiastes 2:17

So I hated life, because the work that is worked 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 fine perfume; and the day of death better than the day of one's birth.

Jeremiah 22:10

Don't you weep for the dead, neither bemoan him; but weep sore for him who goes away; for he shall return no more, nor see his native country.