Ecclesiastes 4:2

King James Version

²Wherefore I praised the dead which are already dead more than the living which are yet alive.

Ecclesiastes 4:2

New International Version

²And I declared that the dead,^(A)
who had already died,
are happier than the living,
who are still alive.^(B)

³Yea, better is he than both they, which hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

³But better than both
is the one who has never been born,^(A)
who has not seen the evil
that is done under the sun.^(B)

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