Ecclesiastes 4:2 - Y'all Version Bible

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.

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

So I hated life, because the work that is worked under the sun was grievous to me. All is emptiness 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

Y’all must not weep for the dead. Y’all must not grieve for the king. Rather y’all must weep-weep for the one how has gone away, for he will never return, or see his native country.