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Ecclesiastes 4:3

But better than both is he who has not yet existed, who has not seen the evil that is done under the sun.

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ASV

yea, better than them both did I esteem him that hath not yet been, who hath not seen the evil work that is done under the sun.

KJV

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

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Original language & word study

17 tagged words
OriginalTransliterationMeaningWord study
וְטוֹב֙ve.tOvand [is] goodH2896 →
מִשְּׁנֵיהֶ֔םmi.she.nei.Hemmore than both of themH8147 →
אֵ֥ת'et<obj.>H853 →
אֲשֶׁר־'a.Sher-[one] whoH834 →
עֲדֶ֖ן'a.DenstillH5728 →
לֹ֣אlo'notH3808 →
הָיָ֑הha.Yahhe has beenH1961 →
אֲשֶׁ֤ר'a.Sher[one] whoH834 →
לֹֽא־lo'-notH3808 →
רָאָה֙ra.'Ahhe has seenH7200 →
אֶת־'et-<obj.>H853 →
הַמַּעֲשֶׂ֣הha.ma.'a.Sehthe activityH4639 →
הָרָ֔עha.Ra'<the> evilH7451 →
אֲשֶׁ֥ר'a.SherwhichH834 →
נַעֲשָׂ֖הna.'a.Sahit is doneH6213 →
תַּ֥חַתTa.chatunderH8478 →
הַשָּֽׁמֶשׁ׃ha.Sha.meshthe sunH8121 →

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Luke 23:29Look, the days are coming when people will say, ‘Blessed are the barren women, the wombs that never bore, and breasts that never nursed!’Ecclesiastes 6:3A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.Ecclesiastes 6:3–5A man may father a hundred children and live for many years; yet no matter how long he lives, if he is unsatisfied with his prosperity and does not even receive a proper burial, I say that a stillborn child is better off than he.Matthew 24:19How miserable those days will be for pregnant and nursing mothers!Jeremiah 9:2–3If only I had a traveler’s lodge in the wilderness, I would abandon my people and depart from them, for they are all adulterers, a crowd of faithless people.Ecclesiastes 2:17So I hated life, because the work that is done under the sun was grievous to me. For everything is futile and a pursuit of the wind.Job 10:18–19Why then did You bring me from the womb? Oh, that I had died, and no eye had seen me!Jeremiah 20:17–18because he did not kill me in the womb so that my mother might have been my grave, and her womb forever enlarged.Job 3:10–16For that night did not shut the doors of the womb to hide the sorrow from my eyes.Psalms 55:6–11I said, “Oh, that I had wings like a dove! I would fly away and find rest.Job 3:22who rejoice and greatly exult when they can find the grave?Ecclesiastes 1:3What does a man gain from all his labor, at which he toils under the sun?Ecclesiastes 2:18I hated all for which I had toiled under the sun, because I must leave it to the man who comes after me.Ecclesiastes 1:14I have seen all the things that are done under the sun, and have found them all to be futile, a pursuit of the wind.

About Ecclesiastes

King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
King Solomon in Old Age — Gustave Doré, Doré's English Bible (1866), public domain
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