Ecclesiastes 4:1-3
New King James Version
The Uselessness of Selfish Toil
4 Then I returned and considered all the (A)oppression that is done under the sun:
And look! The tears of the oppressed,
But they have no comforter—
[a]On the side of their oppressors there is power,
But they have no comforter.
2 (B)Therefore I praised the dead who were already dead,
More than the living who are still alive.
3 (C)Yet, better than both is he who has never existed,
Who has not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.
Footnotes
- Ecclesiastes 4:1 Lit. At the hand
Job 3:1-3
New King James Version
Job Deplores His Birth
3 After this Job opened his mouth and cursed the day of his birth. 2 And Job [a]spoke, and said:
3 “May(A) the day perish on which I was born,
And the night in which it was said,
‘A male child is conceived.’
Footnotes
- Job 3:2 Lit. answered
Job 10:19
New King James Version
19 I would have been as though I had not been.
I would have been carried from the womb to the grave.
Jeremiah 20:14
New King James Version
14 (A)Cursed be the day in which I was born!
Let the day not be blessed in which my mother bore me!
Jonah 4:3
New King James Version
3 (A)Therefore now, O Lord, please take my life from me, for (B)it is better for me to die than to live!”
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