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Ecclesiastes 4:1-3
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Ecclesiastes 4:1-3
EasyEnglish Bible
Other things that have no purpose[a]
4 I saw again all the ways that people are cruel on the earth.
I saw some people who were crying because cruel people were hurting them.
There was nobody who could help them.
Nobody could rescue them from those cruel people.
2 I thought about people who are already dead.
I decided that they are happier than the people who are still alive.
3 But people who have not yet been born are even happier!
They have not seen the evil things that happen on the earth.
Footnotes
- 4:1 In chapters 4-10, the Teacher thinks about different things that happen on the earth. He is trying to understand why they seem to have no purpose. He says that we should enjoy the good things that God gives to us.
Ecclesiastes 4:1-3
New International Version
Ecclesiastes 4:1-3
New International Version
Oppression, Toil, Friendlessness
4 Again I looked and saw all the oppression(A) that was taking place under the sun:
I saw the tears of the oppressed—
and they have no comforter;
power was on the side of their oppressors—
and they have no comforter.(B)
2 And I declared that the dead,(C)
who had already died,
are happier than the living,
who are still alive.(D)
3 But better than both
is the one who has never been born,(E)
who has not seen the evil
that is done under the sun.(F)
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