Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Modern King James Version

² And I commended the dead who already have died, more than the living who are living now.

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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

Therefore I hated life; because the work that is done under the sun is sad to me; for all is vanity and vexation of spirit.

Ecclesiastes 7:1

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

Jeremiah 22:10

Weep not for the dead, nor moan for him; but weep bitterly for him who goes away. For he shall return no more, nor see his native country.