Ecclesiastes 4:2

Berean Standard Bible (BSB)

So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.

In context

1 Again I looked, and I considered all the oppression taking place under the sun. I saw the tears of the oppressed, and they had no comforter; the power lay in the hands of their oppressors, and there was no comforter.

2 So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.

3 But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

4 I saw that all labor and success spring from a man’s envy of his neighbor. This too is futile and a pursuit of the wind.

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Ecclesiastes 4:2 in every translation

BSB Berean Standard Bible: So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still alive.
KJV King James Version: Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
WEB World English Bible: Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
ASV American Standard Version: Wherefore I praised the dead that have been long dead more than the living that are yet alive;
YLT Young's Literal Translation: And I am praising the dead who have already died above the living who are yet alive.
DBY Darby Translation: Then I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive;
WBS Webster Bible: Wherefore I praised the dead who are already dead more than the living who are yet alive.