Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Julia E. Smith Translation 1876

² And I praise the dead already dead more than the living they yet living.

Tuilleadh leaganacha

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 Tagairtí Cros

Ecclesiastes 2:17

And I hated life, for evil to me the work done under the sun: for all vanity and striving of the spirit

Ecclesiastes 7:1

A good name is above good oil, and the day of death above the day of birth.

Jeremiah 22:10

Ye shall not weep for the dead, and ye shall not bewail for him: weep ye, weep ye for him going away, for he shall no more turn back and see the land of his nativity.