Ecclesiastes 4:2
World English Bible (WEB)
Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
In context
1 Then I returned and saw all the oppressions that are done under the sun: and behold, the tears of those who were oppressed, and they had no comforter; and on the side of their oppressors there was power; but they had no comforter.
2 Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
3 Yes, better than them both is him who has not yet been, who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
4 Then I saw all the labor and achievement that is the envy of a man’s neighbor. This also is vanity and a striving after wind.
Ecclesiastes 4:2 in every translation
- WEB World English Bible
- Therefore I praised the dead who have been long dead more than the living who are yet alive.
- KJV King James Version
- Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.
- BSB Berean Standard Bible
- So I admired the dead, who had already died, above the living, who are still 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.