Ecclesiastes 4:2-4

The Message

Slow Suicide

4 ^1-3 Next I turned my attention to all the outrageous violence that takes place on this planet—the tears of the victims, no one to comfort them; the iron grip of oppressors, no one to rescue the victims from them. So I congratulated the dead who are already dead instead of the living who are still alive. But luckier than the dead or the living is the person who has never even been, who has never seen the bad business that takes place on this earth.

⁴ Then I observed all the work and ambition motivated by envy. What a waste! Smoke. And spitting into the wind.